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33 Cards in this Set
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11th Amendment
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1795: Removed cases in which a state was sued without its consent jurisdiction of the federal courts
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12th Amendment
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1804: Required presidential electors to vote separately for president and vice president
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13th Amendment
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1865: Officially ended slavery
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14th Amendment
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1868: Protect rights of African Americans.
~Grants full citizenship to ALL African Americans. |
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15th Amendment
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~Granted right to vote to African American.
~No person can be denied right to vote based upon race, or color. |
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16th Amendment
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Empowered Congress to levy an income tax
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17th Amendment
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1918: Provided for the election of U.S. senators by direct popular vote instead of by the state legislatures
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18th Amendment
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Prohibited Alcohol consumption, selling, etc. in the U.S.
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19th Amendment
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Women Suffrage
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20th Amendment
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1933: Shortened the time between a presidential election and inauguration.
January 20 "Inauguration Day"; January 3 = opening of new Congress |
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21st Amendment
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Repealed 18th Amendment
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22nd Amendment
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1951: Limited presidents to two full terms in office
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23rd Amendment
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1961: DC citizens gained right to vote for President
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24th Amendment
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1964: Eliminated poll tax
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25th Amendment
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1967: Provided for succession to the office of president in the even ot death or incapacity and for filling vacancies in the vice president office
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26th Amendment
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Changed voting age for 21 to 18
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27th Amendment
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Stated that Congressional pay raises will not take effect until after the next election
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Civil War Amendments
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13th, 14th, 15th
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Jim Crow Laws
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Laws, mainly in the south, that encouraged segregation of blacks and whites
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Poll tax
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Blacks were made to pay a higher tax to vote than whites
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Grandfather clause
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Basically said "If your grandfather couldn't vote before 1865, neither can you"
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Literacy Test
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Gave tests to see if you were "literate" enough to be voting. Harder tests were given to blacks than to whites
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Separate facilities are legal as long as they're equal ("Separate but equal")
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Brown vs. Board of Education
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1954, Topeka, Kansas. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for schools to be segregated. Turning point in Civil Rights Movement
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, or gender--Gave all citizens the right to enter public facilities
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Voting Rights Act 1965
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Increased voting rights and put an end to the black codes that had existed since Reconstruction
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Prohibition
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A law, order, or decree that forbids something
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Suffrage
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The right to vote
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Segregation
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The social separation of races
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Discrimination
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Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group
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Affirmitive Action
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Programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities
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Racial profiling
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Singling out an individual as a suspect due to appearance of ethnicity
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NAACP
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; a group that works to promote African-American equality and rights
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