13th
What year was the 13th Amendment passed?
1865
What section does Plessy v. Ferguson violate in the 14th amendment?
Section 1
These were tests that required voters to prove they could read, often unfairly used against Black voters.
Literacy tests
What is the longest word in this line?
longest
Why were the Black Codes created?
It was a response to the 13th Amendment that tried to keep slavery alive.
What section in the 14th amendment states the 3/5 compromise?
Section 2
The 15th Amendment was passed during this era after the Civil War.
The Reconstruction Era
What is the shortest word in this line?
is or in
What year did the Slaughterhouse Cases happen?
1873
What year was Black v. Board of Education?
1954
What year was the Voting Rights Act?
1965
If a person is indicated for a crime, what two rights do they have?
The right to an attorney and the right to a speedy and public trial.
What is Convict Leasing?
This system let states rent out prisoners for cheap labor after slavery ended.
What was the main argument of Black v. Board of Education?
Segregation is harmful to black children and separate facilities could never truly be equal.
The 15th amendment says that voting rights cannot be denied based on these three things.
Race, skin color, or previous conditions of servitude.
The legislative branch does what?
Create laws
This court case mattered because it gave legal justification that segregation was legal. What was it?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Who was the plaintiff of Plessy v. Ferguson?
Homer Plessy
This 1873 event in Louisiana was one of the deadliest acts of racial violence during Reconstruction.
The Colfax Massacre
The powers granted to the National Government by the constitution are called what?
Enumerated powers