Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals.

Part of the Fourteenth Amendment emphasizing that the laws must pro- vide equivalent “protection” to all people.

Civil Rights act of 1964

The law making racial discrimination in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbidding many forms of job discrimination.

The legal right to vote, extended to African Americans by the Fifteenth Amendment, to women by the Nineteenth Amendment, and to 18- to 20-year-olds by the Twenty-sixth Amendment.

Small taxes levied on the right to vote. This method was used by most Southern states to exclude African Americans from voting. Poll taxes were declared void by the Twenty- fourth Amendment in 1964.

Primary elections from which African Americans were excluded, an exclusion that, in the heavily Democratic South, deprived African Americans of a voice in the real contests. The Supreme Court declared white primaries unconstitutional in 1944.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, hundreds of thousands of African Americans were registered, and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatically.

Equal Rights Amendment

passed by Congress in 1972 “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”Despite public support, the amendment fell short of the three-fourths of state legislatures required for passage.

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 : Employment - Prohibits discrimination by a covered entity (any employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee) against any qualified individual with a disability in job applic

policies designed to increase opportunities for underrepresented groups like minorities, women, people with disabilities) in areas such as education, employment, and business, counteracting past

The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude.

“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...

prohibits denying citizens the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude

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Term	Definition
Civil Rights	Policies designed to protect people against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government officials or individuals.
Equal Protection	Part of the Fourteenth Amendment emphasizing that the laws must pro- vide equivalent “protection” to all people.
Reconstruction Amendments	(13,14, 15th)
Civil Rights act of 1964	The law making racial discrimination in hotels, motels, and restaurants illegal and forbidding many forms of job discrimination.
Suffrage	The legal right to vote, extended to African Americans by the Fifteenth Amendment, to women by the Nineteenth Amendment, and to 18- to 20-year-olds by the Twenty-sixth Amendment.
Poll taxes	Small taxes levied on the right to vote. This method was used by most Southern states to exclude African Americans from voting. Poll taxes were declared void by the Twenty- fourth Amendment in 1964.
White primary	Primary elections from which African Americans were excluded, an exclusion that, in the heavily Democratic South, deprived African Americans of a voice in the real contests. The Supreme Court declared white primaries unconstitutional in 1944.
Voting Rights Act of 1965	A law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African American suffrage. Under the law, hundreds of thousands of African Americans were registered, and the number of African American elected officials increased dramatically.
Equal Rights Amendment	passed by Congress in 1972 “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”Despite public support, the amendment fell short of the three-fourths of state legislatures required for passage.
ADA, 1990	Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 : Employment - Prohibits discrimination by a covered entity (any employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee) against any qualified individual with a disability in job applic
Affirmative action	policies designed to increase opportunities for underrepresented groups like minorities, women, people with disabilities) in areas such as education, employment, and business, counteracting past
13th Amendment	The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude.
14th Amendment	“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...
15th Amendment	prohibits denying citizens the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude

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