5.1
What was Bolling v. Sharp (1954)?
Bolling v. Sharpe was a Supreme Court case that applied the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause to prohibit racial discrimination by the federal government.
What is the NAACP?
An organization, founded in 1909, focused on legal challenges to segregation and was instrumental in overturning discriminatory laws
The first American woman to give a speech to a mixed audience.
Who is Maria W. Steward
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
The effort to assimilate Native Americans to White society, divided reservation lands into individual allotments.
What minority group referred to themselves as chicanos?
Mexican Americans
What were Black Codes ?
The Black codes were laws passed by southern states after the Civil War to restrict the freedoms of formerly enslaved people.
What is the 13th amendment?
This amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery in the United States
After marriage, women's separate legal identities were discarded under this legal principle.
What is Coverture.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Native Americans were forced to move west of the Mississippi River.
What minority group is known as “the model minority?”
Asian Americans
What is the selective service system?
The Selective Service System registers men for potential military drafts.
What is the grandfather clause?
A practice, which allowed illiterate White people to vote but not Black people, was known as a "loophole" to disenfranchise Black voters
Founded in the 1890's, this association sought to attain suffrage for women across the United States.
What is NAWSA (National American Women Suffrage Association)
What other native people were discriminated against?
Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiian
What two individuals fought for Mexican American agriculture worker’s freedom in the 1960s?
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
What is the Equal Protection Clause?
The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It prohibits states from denying any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, ensuring all individuals are treated equally under the law.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A document issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 declared that enslaved people in the Confederate states were free
An invisible barrier caused by discrimination that hinders women from reaching the highest level in American corporations.
What is the glass ceiling.
When were Native Americans born before Indian Citizenship Act granted citizenship?
1940
What was the name of the union group started by Cesar Chavez in 1962?
National Farm Workers Association (NFWA)