Political Science POLS-Y 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Nineteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Literacy Test, Plessy V. Ferguson

• School: IUPUI
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science POLS-Y 103
• Professor: friesen

Document Summary

Civil rights = government protected rights of individuals against arbitrary or discriminatory treatment by government or individuals. Thirteenth amendment = one of the three civil war amendments; specifically bans slavery in the united states. Black codes = laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the civil war. Fourteenth amendment = guarantees equal protection and due process of the law to all u. s citizens. Equal protection clause = section of the fourteenth amendment that guarantees all citizens receive (cid:498)equal protection of the laws(cid:499) Fifteenth amendment = specifically enfranchised newly freed male slaves. Jim crow laws = laws enacted by southern states that required segregation in public schools, theaters, hotels, and other public accommodations. Civil rights cases (1883) = five cases brought under the civil rights act. Supreme court decided that discrimination in a variety of public accommodations could not be prohibited by the act because such discrimination was private.