American Life
Name _______________________________
Mr. McCreary
Unit 1: Race and Ethnicity
Part 2: Government Action
1. 1788 - The U.S. Constitution
a. The US Constitution DID / DID NOT ban slavery
b. The _______________________ Slave Law said that free states
must return _______________________ _________________
because they are ____________________________.
c. 3/5th Compromise – each slave was counted as 3/5th of a
________________ to determine population.
2. 1861-1865 - The Civil War
a. The Civil War was fought over who should have more ________:
the states or the ______________________ government.
b. President _____________________ wrote the
_____________________ Proclamation which freed slaves in the
___________________ states.
3. 1865 - 13th Amendment
a. Slavery is declared ________________________
4. 1868 - 14th Amendment
a. Granted freed slaves ___________________________ and
“Equal ____________________” under the law
5. 1870 - 15th Amendment
a. Granted _____________________ rights to all citizens
6. 1876 – Jim Crow Laws
a. Series of _____________ passed in _________________ states
to keep ______________________ in power.
b. Examples: ___________ Tax, ________________Tests, separate
_________________-__________________________________________
7. 1896 – Plessy v Ferguson
a. “Separate but _______________” is ok.
b. separating the races (__________________________) is
_____________ as long as facilities for both are
“________________”
8. 1954 – Brown v Board of Education (Topeka, KS)
a. Declared that ________________________ in schools was
____________
9. 1971 - Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (CharMeck)
a. It is ok to ___________________ school through “forced
___________”
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1978 - Bakke v University of California Medical School
It is ok to use ___________ as a factor for admission into
___________
Legalized “_______________________
_____________________”
Affirmative Action is a positive effort to recruit
__________________ members or _______________________
for jobs, promotions, & educational opportunities due to past
__________________________.
Critics call it “___________________________ Discrimination”