Vote -- And A Few Reasons Why You Need To!

• 13th Amendment Abolished slavery --- Abolish means To get rid of
• 14th Amendment All people born in the US are citizens with equal rights
• 15th Amendment Right to vote for all male citizens
• Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan 13th Amendment, South never really left the union, forgiveness
• Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan Similar to Lincoln's plan offering forgiveness but also gave amnesty to Confederate Leaders
• Reconstruction Historical period marked by military occupation, Constitutional changes and Presidential Impeachment
• Radical Republicans Congressmen who wanted full equality for freedmen and disagreed with President Johnson's Plan
• Poll tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause Voting barriers for African Americans, limited the effectiveness of the 15th Amendment
• Jim Crow Laws Created segregation in the South
• Reconstruction Amendments Attempted to provide political and legal rights for Freedmen and created a Constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Movement
• Sharecropping A form of Agriculture that limited the freedom of African Americans by keeping them on the plantation and dependent on their former masters
• End of Reconstruction Due to the Election of Rutherford B Hayes in 1877 the Federal troops were removed from the south
• Black Codes Regulations that limited the freedom of African Americans
• Freedmen Formerly enslaved persons (African Americans) after the Civil War
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) provided for legal segration based on race if "separate but equal" facilities were available
• Booker T Washington African American leader who advocated vocational training as way of economic opportunity and gradual equality for African Americans
• W.E.B. DuBois African Americans should achieve immediate equality by obtaining college education and challenging segregation in court
• NAACP Organization created by WEB DuBois to provide lawyers for African Americans whose civil rights were violated
• Tuskegee Institute Vocation training school created by Booker T Washington in order to improve the economic standing of African Americans
• Great Migration Period from 1900-1930 where African Americans left sharecropping in the south to obtain factory jobs in northern urban areas
• Little Rock 9 1st group of black students who were able to attend an all-white school because President Eisenhower used the military to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision
• Desegregation of Armed Forces Executive order by President Harry Truman to integrate the Armed Forces after WWII
• Montgomery Bus Boycott Official beginning of the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. becomes a national celebrity
• Civil Disobedience Based on writings of Saint Augustine and actions of Gandhi, citizens used non-violence to peacefully break unjust laws
• Sit Ins -- An example of civil disobedience used to force the desegregation of lunch counters
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954) reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decision, declaring that "separate but equal is inherently unequal" and legally ended segregation
• Civil Rights Act (1964) Passed after Martin Luther King's March on Washington it made it a crime to discriminate based on race or gender
• Voting Rights Act (1965) Made it a crime to create barriers or restrictions to voting
• Freedom Rides and Selma Montgomery March Peaceful actions used to end barriers of African American voting rights