United States Civil Rights

Removed barriers to black enfranchisement in the South, banning poll taxes, literacy tests, and other measures that effectively prevented African Americans from voting -

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Voting Rights Act of 1865

• Votings Rights Act of 1982

Helped establish the precedent that "seperate but equal" education and other services was not equal at all -

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Hernandez V. Texas

Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

• Sweatt V. Painter

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Hernandez V. Texas

U.S. Supreme Court case that made segregation legal in the U.S. - created the "seperate but equal" principle.

• Plessy V. Ferguson

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Hernanadez V. Texas

• Miranda V. Arizona

Laws created after Reconstruction to enforce segragation in public places -

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Jim Pigeon Laws

• KKK Code

These were restrictions on voting for African Americans -

• poll taxes

• literacy tests

• grandfather clause

• unfair exams that were sometimes written in Latin

This Amendment guaranteed African Americans the right to vote -

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This Amendment made African Americans citizens guaranteed equal protection under the law -

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This Amendment outlawed slavery

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Three "Civil War" or "Reconstruction" amendments radically altered post-war American life. Which of the images below illustrates the 14th Amendment?

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