H11

1. Gender has been a topic of discrimination, especially with the issue of the 20th Amendment. Race is a civil rights issue as well. Also people who suffer with disabilities get discriminated against when buying homes, etc. 
2. The 13th Amendment abolished Slavery and Servitude unless you have committed a crime. 
3. The Black Codes prevented African American citizens equal opportunities that their white counterparts had. For example, states could hire out black people for help without paying them. 
4. The 14th Amendment allowed all people who are born in the US to be claimed as US citizens. 
5. The 15th Amendment gave African American men the right to vote. 
6. To separate white and black people in public facilities. 
7. The poll tax, literacy test, and grandfather clause were all used to prevent blacks from voting. Blacks could not pay a poll tax every time they wanted to vote, and most of them were not educated, especially coming from slavery. The Grandfather Clause was used to scare black people into not voting. The Ku Klux Klan would stand outside of the polls and scare them from voting. 
8. Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that segregation was legal as long as public facilities were "separate but equal" 
9. Brown v. Board of Education ruled that segregation is unconstitutional, and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. 
10. De jure segregation is separation forced by law, while de facto segregation is when an individual enforces separation.