Civil Rights

Allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands and allot them to individual Native Americans. The aim of the law was to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by destroying their cultural and social traditions.

• Dawes Act of 1887

• Jones Act of 1917

• Snyder Act of 1924

• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Granted US citizenship to the people of Puerto Rico

• Dawes Act of 1887

• Jones Act of 1917

• Synder Act of 1924

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

Granted US citizenship to all Native Americans

• Synder Act of 1924

• Jones Act of 1917

• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

• Due Process Clause

Prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender or national origin. This includes discrimination in the workplace, public places and schools.

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Due Process Clause

• Dawes Act of 1887

The section of the 14th Amendment that says anyone born or naturalized in the US is a citizen of the US.

• Citizenship Clause

• Jus Sanguinis

• Equal Protection Clause

• Due Process Clause

The Supreme Court ruling that said the citizenship and voting rights of the 14th and 15th Amendments did not apply to Native Americans born on Reservations.

• Elk v. Wilkins (1884)

• U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)

• Bailey v Patterson (1962)

• Hernandez v Texas (1954)

To absorb fully; To adopt as one's own; To adapt fully.

• Assimilate

• Jus Soli

• Secession

• Segregation

Law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese workers and denied citizenship through naturalization. This law remained in effect until 1943.

• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

• U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)

• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

• 24th Amendment

The Supreme Court case which supported native born citizenship, regardless of a parent's nationality. The court upheld the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment.

• U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)

• Mills v Board of Education (1972)

• Elk v. Wilkins (1884)

• Hernandez v Texas (1954)

"Law of the Blood," which determines citizenship based on the citizenship of one's parents.

• Jus Sanguinis

• Jus Soli

• Assimilate

• Secession