Political Science POLS-Y 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jim Crow Laws, Indentured Servant, Reconstruction Amendments
25 Aug 2016
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Slavery: a taking away of all rights and liberties. Slaves were not treated as citizens or, even, as human beings. The supreme court"s decision in the dred scott v. sandford (1857) holds that slaves are not citizens, that they"re of inferior order , and have no right to sue in the court system. Broadly applied to non-enslaved blacks, in both the north and south. Before freed slaves were given citizenship, many states tried to impose a slave like condition upon them. Lack of voting rights (and really all citizenship rights) 14th amendment (1868): all people born here are citizens. Strengthens disenfranchisement of women by specifically mentioning men as having the voting right. 15th amendment (1870): no racial restrictions on voting. 19th amendment (1920): no sex restrictions on voting. By the time women formally win the vote, many states had already granted it to them. 26th amendment (1971): no age restrictions on voting for any over the age of 18.
