General: 2

• What was the 14th Amendment?


  1868, Equal social and political rights.
• When was the 15th Amendment?

  1870, gave more people right to vote.
• What was the Freedman's bureau?

  1865-1872, government provided support to freed slaves.
• What was the Slaughterhouse case?


  1873, state not federal control on laws, allowed for Jim Crow laws to be instated.
• When was Mississippi v. Williams?

  1898, ruled voting regulations constitutional.
• What was a drawback to the new deal?

  Didn't support blacks politically, although it did economically.
• Gaines v. Canada?


  1938, ruled that "separate but equal must be equal"
• Who desegregated the military and when?

  Truman, in 1948
• Who was president during Little Rock Nine and when?

  Eisenhower, took place in 1957.
• Which ruling supported Nixon's policy of affirmative action?

  Griggs v. Duke's Power Company, 1971.
• Ronald Reagan's (1980s) view on African Americans?

  Negative, vetoed positive legislation.
• How did congress overrule Reagan?


  Passed Civil Rights Restoration Act 1984, organisations have to follow all rights legislation to get funding.