GVPT 170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: New Deal Coalition, Reconstruction Acts, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
16 Oct 2016
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Racial pro ling is a huge problem: arabs after 9/11, hispanics in the south-west. Civil liberties: constitutional protections from governmental power. Civil rights: right protected by the government. Public policy public safety and election regulations) left up to the states allowed slavery to. 2 major obstacles: states determined voting eligibility, split up of power made it hard to strike down state tyranny. 15th amendment: former slaves are given the right to vote. Issue: equal opportunity in the marketplace. The balance in the senate between free/slave states prevented policy change. 1819: missouri wanted to enter america as a slave state. Would upset the balance: compromise: missouri enters as a slave state and maine enters as a free state. Slaves not allowed above mason dixon line. States began to join unevenly: more free than slave, south was losing its edge in the senate. Wilmont proviso: ban slavery in all new states, slave labor depressed wages for white workers.
