Chapter 4 Section 3 And 4 Flashcards
Laws from after the Civil War that kept African-Americans from holding certain jobs, gave them few property rights, and limited the rights in other ways
Black codes
A sum of money that people were required to pay to vote
Poll taxes
Gave residents of Washington DC the right to vote
23rd amendment
Stated that all people born or naturalized in the United States were citizens
14th amendment
Repealed the 18th amendment
21st amendment
Abolished slavery
13th amendment
Gave women the right to vote
19th amendment
Made 18 the minimum voting age in elections
26th amendment
Prohibited the consumption, possession , or selling of alcohol
18th amendment
Made pole Taxes illegal
24th amendment
Allowed for the direct election of Senators
17th amendment
One of the major leaders of the civil rights movement who believed in nonviolence resistance/peaceful protest of unfair laws
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The rights of full citizenship and equality under the law
Civil rights
The social separation of races
Segregation
Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group
Discrimination
Programs to try to make up for past discrimination. These programs encourage the hiring and promoting of minorities and woman in fields that were traditionally close to them
Affirmative action
The right to vote
Suffrage
This law prohibited discrimination in public facilities, employment, education, and voter registration
Civil rights act of 1964
This legislation banned unfair use of literacy tests
Voting rights act of 1965
Laws in the south that segregated the races
Jim Crow laws
A violent act against a person because of his or her race, color, national origin, gender, or disability
Hate crime
What did the civil rights act of 1964 do?
It banned segregation in stores, restaurants, hotels, in theaters. Also any discrimination in decisions about hiring work
What were sit-ins?
The act of occupying seats or sitting down on the floor of an establishment as a form of organize protest
Why did the brown vs board case come about? What were the results?
This case came about because Linda Brown had to walk all the way across town just to go to a black school when a white school was just a couple blocks down from her house. The results were victorious for the civil rights. The court said that separating children in schools by race was against the Constitution
What were the freedom rides/freedom riders
The freedom rides were protests trying to tell America that we are a diverse country and to start acting like one. Freedom riders were black and whites that did these protests
