Chapter 5 Flashcards
What does the term civil rights mean?Who provided the 14 amendment constitution?
It means to the rights of all Americans to equal protection under the law, as provided by the 14 amendment.
What are civil liberties?
They are limitations on government. Specify what the government cannot do.
What are civil rights?
What the government must do to ensure equal protection and freedom of discrimination. Usually fund in the 14 amendment.
What is the history of civil right?
To define the struggles of various groups to be free from discriminatory treatment.
What were the civil rights of Americas?
the civil rights movement of the 1950s-1960s, the women movement, and movement to gain equal rights for gay men and lesbians.
What are the minorities that continue to suffer?
Asian Americans, Muslims Americans, older Americans and person with disabilities.
What year was before the constitution protected slavery?
Before 1863, protected, not protected on the civil war(1861-1865)
What was the ending servitude? What did President Lincoln do?
President Lincoln’s Emancipation proclamation in 1863, 13,14, and the 15 amendments during the reconstruction period(1865-1877).
What are the constitutional Amendments?
The thirteen amendment(1865) states that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States.
The 14 Amendment (1865) tell us that all persons born or naturalized in the united states are citizens of the United States.
What does the 14 amendment argue?
“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of ((life, liberty, or property)), without due process of law; Nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.’’
What is the term citizen and amendment so important?
Citizen have political rights such as rights to vote and run for political office. Citizens have privileges or immunities.
Person has the right to a process of law and equal protection under the law.
What was the 15 amendment?
” the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by they United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude”
What is the right to vote Is called as what?
It is called suffrage, another term is enfranchisement which means “granting the right to vote”.
What are the civil rights acts of 1865 to 1875?
1865,1875 passed civil rights act to enforce the thirteen, fourteen and 15 amendment.
The civil rights act of 1866 implemented the extension of citizenship to anyone born in the united states and gave African American full equality under the law.
What did the act of 1870 did?
Gave specific criminal penalties for interfering with the right to vote was protected by the 15 amendment and the civil rights rights act of 1866.
what was the civil rights act of 1872?
It was know as the Anti-ku klux klan act, made it a federal crime for anyone to use law or custom to deprive individuals rights, privileges and immunities secured by the constitution or by federal law.
When was the second civil rights act passed?
1875, declared that everyone is initialed to full and equal enjoyment of public accommodations , theaters and other places of public and userment, and it imposed penalties on violations.
Why was the early civil rights ineffective?
Civil right cases and poesy v Ferguson effectively nullified these acts. Additional barriers were erected that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
what was the civil right cases?1875
The united states supreme court invalidated the 1875 second civil rights act when it held, in the civil rights cases of 1833, that the enforcement clause of the 14 amendment, was limited to correcting official actions taken by states.
White were to willingly to the civil rights legislation of the 1860’s and 1870’s. Never officially repealed by congress.
What was the Plessy v. Ferguson: Separate but equal?
During the period concerned homer Plessy, who was one-eight African American. 1892 he boarded a train in New Orleans, conducted made him leave the car,which restricted to whites, and directed to a car for non-whites.
Louisiana allowed it that statue confronted the 14 Amendment.
The Supreme Court ruled that it was not used to discriminate, segregation alone did not imply discrimination.(separate but equal doctrine)
What did plessy v. Ferguson brought on individuals?
Created discrimination and in the south create the “Jim Crow” laws. Separate but equal.
What had been the voting barriers?
Democrats told that political parties were private entities, keep black votes from
It had ended after 1877, during the south of the reconstruction era were withdraw.
Deprived the Americans the right to vote.
White supremasit, used everything except race as a formal criterion, passed laws that deprive the Americans the right to vote. Democratic could keep republican votes at bay.
What was the white primary?
Was upheld by the Supreme Court until 1944, when court rule its violation of the 15 amendment.
What was the grandfather clause?
Is when you were denied the voting right if your parents had also, been denied from doing so in 1867.
What are Poll tax?
Is a requirement to pay a fee to vote. Poor whites and negros could not vote. 24 admendment ratified, 1964 eliminated as a precondition to voting.
What is a literacy test?
Was a way to denied the vote to African Americans. To the satisfaction of the local registrars they were never sastifed.
