QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED.
◉ 13th Amendment. Answer: Amendment that abolishes slavery
◉ 14th Amendment. Answer: Amendment that states: If you are
born in the U.S you are a citizen. People can not be deprived life,
liberty, or property based on race without due process.
◉ 15th Amendment. Answer: Amendment that grants voting rights
to African Americans
◉ Jim Crow Statutes. Answer: Laws that created strict segregation in
churches, schools, housing, jobs, eating and drinking, sports,
hospitals, orphanages, asylums, funeral homes, etc.
◉ De jure discrimination. Answer: Legal discrimination
(discrimination by law)
◉ De facto discrimination. Answer: Not legal discrimination
(discrimination by practice)
, ◉ Plessy v. Ferguson. Answer: Court case that upheld segregation
under the document of separate but equal.
◉ 19th Amendment. Answer: Amendment that allows women to
vote
◉ Brown v. Board. Answer: Court case that overturns Plessy v.
Ferguson and says that separate but equal is inherently unequal.
◉ Civil Rights Act of 1957. Answer: This established the Civil Rights
Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal
prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against segregation. Strongly
encouraging the registration of African American voting, addressed
use of facilities.
◉ Civil Rights Act of 1964. Answer: This outlawed segregation
saying that no business can discriminate on the basis of race.
◉ Voting Rights Act of 1982. Answer: This created majority -
minority districts.
◉ Voting Rights Act of 1965. Answer: This outlawed literacy tests
everywhere