PS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: De Jure, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Of 2009, De Facto

• School: Oakland University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 100
• Professor: Towner

Document Summary

What are civil rights? etc: for example: free from unequal treatment based on race, gender, disability, Civil liberties: the constitution"s protections from government power concerns. Politics of black civil rights: height of slavery (1808 1865) Late 1807,congress passed a law ending the importation of slaves important part. Missouri compromise (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:524) can continue in slave trade to prevent civil war: for example: freedom of speech, for example: right to privacy basic freedoms from bill of rights and the constitution. Missouri compromise of 1850 of southern economy: fugitive slave law. Answer: africans are not citizens and never will be. Abraham lincoln and the 1860 presidential election (cid:498)free soil, free labor, free men(cid:499) slaves. Emancipation proclamation (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:888)(cid:884)(cid:524) encouraged slave owners to emancipate their. Politics of black civil rights: reconstruction: 1865 1877: can be seen as a war document. Fourteenth amendment (granted citizenship) law despite sex, race, and gender: overturns dred scott decision.