Chapter5CivilRights - Chapter 5 Civil Rights...

Chapter 5: Civil Rights
Vocabulary/Concepts:
Discrimination Strict Scrutiny
Civil Rights de jure segregation
Equal Protection Clause de facto segregation
13th Amendment Intermediate Scrutiny
14th Amendment Affirmative Action
15th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Separate but Equal
Objectives
The Student will be able to:
Evaluate the role of public opinion, interest groups, and political parties (TC)
1. Define civil rights- Civil rights are when the government takes steps to actively secure equality
for different groups in society.
2. Describe the expansion of civil rights within their historical context
a. Slavery and the abolitionist movement- William Lloyd Harrison (Leader of the Abolitionist
movement)
1840- World Anti-Slavery Convention (London) Mott and Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention- 1848 is where women come together and write the
Declaration of Sentiments.
1857- Dredd Scott Case: Supreme Court ruled that Blacks were not citizens and
you don’t lose slave property when you move to a “non-slave” state; 1860-1865
Civil War
b. Link to the women’s rights movement: Women felt that they are connected to the slaves
because they both have struggles.
c. The Civil War and its amendments to the Constitution
i. 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment: 13 th gets rid of slavery, 14 th gives equal protection under the
law and says if you are born here you are a citizen, 15 th states that the states are not allowed to
restrict people based on race or gender.
ii. 1870: Split between women’s movement and African American Civil Rights
iii. Civil Rights Act of 1875: Private businesses could not discriminate against people.
iv. Civil Rights Cases 1883 : All challenged the civil rights act and the courts ruled the civil rights act
of 1875 unconstitutional.