H11

1. Discuss and evaluate the difference between equal opportunity and equal results.
1. Equal opportunity is the chance to have an opportunity that everybody else also has but depending on what you do you might not get the same results as everybody else.
2. What did the 13th amendment say?
1. The 13th amendment abolished slavery.
3. What did the 15th amendment say?
1.  It said that no U.S citizen can be denied the right to vote.
4. What was the purpose of Jim Crow laws? 
1. The purpose of Jim Crow laws was to deprive African-Americans from receiving the same rights as white people like voting rights, due process, and equal protection under the law.
5. What's the difference between de jure and de facto segregation
1. De jure segregation is segregation that is approved by the government while de facto segregation is segregation that is not officially legal but is practiced nonetheless.
6. Identify major provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
1. Some provisions of this act are that it banned any segregation in a public area, and allowed the Attorney General to sue any school systems that had segregated schools.
7. Identify major provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
1. Some provisions of the Voting RIghts Act of 1965 were that it allowed for any citizen to vote without having to take a literacy test like in the past. Also, if there were major minorities, a ballot had to be bilingual and there could be no change to the voting unless it's approved by the Attorney General.
8. Explain how states used white primaries to enforce discrimination.
1. White primaries allowed for southerners to declare that the Democratic party was a private group that could exclude anybody it wanted.
9. Explain how states used grandfather clauses to enforce discrimination.
1. the grandfather clauses said that anybody who had the right to vote between 1866 and 1867 could vote without being taxed but slaves weren't allowed the right to vote until 1870.
10. Explain how states used poll taxes to enforce discrimination.
1. Most freed blacks couldn't afford the poll tax that was around $200 so this discriminated against them.
11. Explain how states used literacy tests to enforce discrimination.
1. Most of the questions on the literacy tests were questions too hard even for a white person to answer. Somebody could say that the answers are wrong and not let you vote if you're black and somebody could say the white person was right and could vote even if the answers were actually wrong.
12. What does the 24th Amendment say?
1. This amendment ended all of the poll taxes.