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A test given before a person could vote.
What is Literacy Test?
100
This played a large role in lowering the voting age to 18.
What is Vietnam War?
100
This minority was the last to gain voting rights.
Who are the Native Americans?
100
She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
A president can only serve two elected terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
200
The right to vote.
What is Suffrage?
200
Women taking over jobs for men who had gone to war led to this civil right.
What is Women's Suffrage?
200
This group of laws was designed to help minorities and women over come discrimination in housing and employment.
What is Affirmative Action?
200
When African Americans refused to ride any bus because of segregation.
What is the Montgomery Boycott?
200
This amendment gave people the right to elect senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
300
The law that banned literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
300
These limited the rights of African Americans.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
300
When there are separate areas for different people in housing, schools and transportation.
What is segregation?
300
This court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
300
The amendment declares January 20th to be the day the President takes office.
What is the 20th Amendment?
400
Gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
Court case that allowed "Separate but Equal" ruling.
What is "Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
A group that has fewer members or lacks power.
What is a minority?
400
This Amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
400
This gave people who live in Washington D.C. the right to vote for federal officials.
What is the 23rd Amendment?
500
Lowered the voting age from 20 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
500
This president signed a law forcing the integration of the military.
Who is Harry Truman?
500
To show unfair treatment toward someone.
What is discrimination?
500
This court decides if a law is constitutional.
What is the Supreme Court?
500
This amendment tells when Congress can get a pay raise.
What is the 27th Amendment?