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Civil rights

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  • Guarantee equal protection under law

- Rooted in the 14th Amendment

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14th Amendment

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  • Those born in the US are citizens

- Right to life liberty and property

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Civil Rights Act of 1866

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Implemented the extension of citizenship to anyone born in the US and gave African-Americans full equality before the law.

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Enforcement Act of 1870

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Set out criminal penalties on those who interfered with the right to vote.

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Civil Rights Act of 1872

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  • Known as the anti Klu Klux Klan Act
  • Made it a crime for anyone to use law or custom to deprive an individual of rights, privileges, and immunities secured by the Constitution or by any federal law.
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The Second Civil Rights Act (1875)

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Declare that everyone is entitled to full and equal enjoyment of public accommodations and places of public amusement.

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Plessy vs Ferguson

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  • African-American Homer Plessy was told to leave a train because it was only for whites.
  • introduced the “separate but equal” doctrine
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Separate but equal

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Separation of races in places they could interact with each other do not imply inferiority of race.

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Voting barriers

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  • grandfather clause
  • poll taxes
  • white primary
  • literacy tests
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Grandfather clause

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Restricted voting to those who can prove that their ancestors had voted before 1867

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White primary

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Prevented African Americans from voting in the primaries.

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Poll taxes

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Required payment of a fee to vote.

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Literacy tests

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Only people who could read can vote.

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Brown vs Board of Education

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Ruled that “separate but equal” doctrine segregation is against the 14th Amendment.

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De jure segregation

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Racial segregation due to laws.

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De facto segregation

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Racial segregation because of past social and economic conditions

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Civil disobedience

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nonviolent protest to unjust laws

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Banned discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender or national origin

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The Voting Rights Act of 1865

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  • Passed because only 29% of African Americans of voting age were registered in the southern states.
  • outlawed discriminatory voter registration tests
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The Civil Rights Act of 1968

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Banned discrimination in housing and mortgage

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What percent of African Americans were registered to vote as a result of the voting right acts?

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56% of African Americans by 1980

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Affirmative action

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A policy in educational admissions and job hiring that gives special attention or compensation to traditionally disadvantaged groups in an effort to overcome the effects of past discrimination

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Reverse discrimination

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The situation in which an affirmative action program discriminates against those who do not have minority status like a competent white student cannot have access to a university simply because he is not black or any other minority

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Congressional Union

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  • Founded by Alice Paul in the early 1900s
  • Adopted a national strategy of amending the Constitution by civil disobedience
  • Led to the passing of the 19th Amendment
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Congressional Union

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  • Founded by Alice Paul in the early 1900s
  • Adopted a national strategy of amending the Constitution by civil disobedience
  • Led to the passing of the 19th Amendment
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19th Amendment

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Women are allowed to vote too

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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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  • Prohibits gender discrimination in employment

- States that sexual harassment is part of gender discrimination

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The Equal Pay Act

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  • Required employers to pay women equally as men

- Did not address that male jobs pay more money than female jobs

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Stonewall incident

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Marked the beginning of the movement for gay and lesbian rights

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Bowers vs Hardwick

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made homosexual acts illegal

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Lawrence vs Texas

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Ruled that sodomy laws violated the 14th Amendment

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Sodomy laws

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Laws that defined certain sexual acts as crimes, like homosexuality, bestiality, etc

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Defense of Marriage Act

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Made state governments to ignore homosexual couples and ignore same-sex marriages performed in other states

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Common law

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Judge-made law that originated in England from decisions shaped according to prevailing customs

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Civil law

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the law regulating conduct between private persons over non criminal matters including contracts, domestic relations, and business interactions

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Criminal law

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the law that defines crimes and provides punishment for violations

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Majority

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he age at which a person is entitled by law to the right to manage her or his own affairs

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Felony

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a serious crime punishable in most jurisdictions buy a prison sentence longer than 1 year