chapter 5

The Thirteenth Amendment

abolished slavery

In response to the Civil Rights Act of 1875, the Supreme Court

declared the act unconstitutional because it protected against acts of private discrimination rather than state discrimination.

The ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

established the separate but equal rule.

What does the term Jim Crow mean?

the system of racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction

he first slaves were brought to what would become the United States in ________.

1619

About ________ percent of southern white families owned slaves in 1840.

25

the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees

African American men the right to vote.

Women were guaranteed the right to vote with the passage of the ________ Amendment in 1920.

Nineteenth

What was the result of the Compromise of 1877?

Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president.

During the 1940s and 1950s, who was the head lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund?

Thurgood Marshall

________ was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

W. E. B. Du Bois

Which was the first state to allow women to vote?

Wyoming

What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

a meeting in upstate New York during the mid-nineteenth century regarding women's rights

The Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) that

racially restrictive covenants on housing could not be enforced by courts.

Restrictive covenants were

contract clauses added by the seller of a home that required the buyer to agree never to sell the home to any non-Caucasian.

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 attempted to

protect former slaves from discrimination in public accommodations such as hotels and theaters.

During the late nineteenth century, the equal protection clause was

severely limited in scope by the Supreme Court.

The "peculiar institution" was a phrase used by southerners to describe

slavery

After World War II, which government institution first began drawing attention to the problem of racism in America?

the White House

President ________ appointed the first President's Commission on Civil Rights in ________.

truman;1946