Civil Rights

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  1. 2. laws that came after the Reconstruction Amendments to keep whites and blacks separated
  2. 4. civil ______ are Rights centered around the concept of equal treatment that the government must protect.
  3. 5. Homer ________ was a light skinned man who described himself as “7/8s Caucasian” was arrested for violating a state law requiring separate railroad cars for whites and African Americans.
  4. 8. clauses in local or state law that allowed you to bypass poll taxes and literacy tests if your grandfather voted
  5. 10. the 15th Amendment secured universal male ________ (the right to vote)
  6. 13. this is the separation of the races in society based on a combination of laws or societal practices.
  7. 15. type of test given to people to limit their ability to vote
  8. 17. __ _____ is Segregation written into law
  9. 20. Holding of Plessy v. Ferguson: ____ ___ ____ facilities do not violate the 14th Am. or the Constitution
  10. 21. name this clause in the 14th Amendment:"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
  11. 22. this institution of forced race-based labor was a part of America from the very beginning of our country.
  12. 24. Dissenting Opinion of Plessy v. Ferguson: "“Our Constitution is color ______, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect to civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law.”
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  1. 1. in Dred Scott v. Sandford SCOTUS said that Black people, whether free or enslaved, were not and could not be U.S. _______
  2. 3. terror organization throughout the United States that used fear and violence to limit the freedoms of non-whites and non-christians
  3. 5. paying a fee to vote, later outlawed by the 24th Amendment
  4. 6. (in)famaous SCOTUS case where this man sued for his freedom and lost
  5. 7. the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are known as the _____________ amendments
  6. 9. the 13th Amendment _______ slavery
  7. 11. name this clause in the 14th Amendment: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
  8. 12. the debate on slavery and whether it is under federal jurisdiction or a right of states leads to this 4.5 year war with over 600K casualties.
  9. 13. the goal of black codes was to "make Negroes _______ in everything but name"
  10. 14. laws passed in the south immediately after the Civil War to restrict the economic and political rights of freed slaves.
  11. 16. name this clause in the 14th Amendment: "nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws"
  12. 18. in Dred Scott v. Sandford SCOTUS said enslaved people were ______ protected by the Fifth Amendment
  13. 19. __ _____ is Segregation that happens through other factors or the lingering consequences of de jure segregation.
  14. 23. Civil _____ are rights that are so fundamental that they are outside the authority of the government to regulate/control.