This was one aspect of the two part strategy that was used to push back against the Plessy verdict.
What is litigation?
100
This was held by women to talk about the right to vote in 1848.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
100
a law put in place to discriminate
What is de jure discrimination?
100
These came in response to the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendment.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
100
These implicitly took away the rights of former slaves.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
200
This was founded to collect money that would be used to hire people responsible for bringing segregated cases to the Supreme Court.
What is the NAACP?
200
She led the less violent side of the Women's Civil Rights Movement which included lobbying Congress, pushing for national and state passage of laws, and bi-partisan campaigns.
Who is Carrie Chapman Catt?
200
This example of a Jim Crow Law stated that, in order to vote, you had to pay a tax.
What is a Poll Tax?
200
This came at the end of the Civil War and outlawed slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
200
Marches, sit-ins, and boycotts are an example of this.
What are protests?
300
This protected the rights of all Americans to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
300
This gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
This made black codes illegal.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
Freed slaves in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted this long.
What is 381 days?
400
This decided that schools needed to desegregate in 1954.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
400
This state was the first to give women the right to vote, but it was not for equality. This was so women would move to their state.
What is Wyoming?
400
This judge was from Kentucky and disagreed that separation could be equal.
Who is Justice Harley?
400
This decided that slaves were not free, even if they lived in free states. It also decided that a slave was depriving his owner of his property.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
400
This uses laws to create opportunities for groups that suffered discrimination.
What is Affirmative Action?
500
This passed to take away the effects of Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
500
This requires that women and men are treated equally in things such as sports and school.
What is Title IX?
500
This decided that segregated facilities did not violate the 14th Amendment if they were "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
This was a recipe for the Civil War and was established to push the Virginia Plan.
What is the 3/5ths compromise?
500
Groups such as the Klu-Klux-Klan used these tactics to uphold the Jim Crow Laws.