Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryAmerica - 19th and 20th centuryA2/A-levelOCR Created by: Charlotte DoddCreated on: 12-04-14 13:13 1860'S Asian American immigration to West Coast begins 1 of 42 1862 Homestead Act 2 of 42 1865 End of Civil War 3 of 42 1866 Formation of Ku Klux Klan; Black codes against African Americans (1865-6) 4 of 42 1868 14th Amendment to the constitution; 2 African American senators elected 5 of 42 1869-76 More than 200 battles between US Army and Plains indians 6 of 42 1870 15th Amendment passed 7 of 42 1877 End of reconstruction; segregation started in South; repression of unions 8 of 42 1881 Gompers set up American Federation of Labour; Brooker T. Washington became principal at Tuskegee 9 of 42 1884 Prohibitation of the Sun dance 10 of 42 1887 Dawes Act 11 of 42 1890 End of Indian wars with battle of Wounded Knee 12 of 42 1893 Homestead Steel Strike 13 of 42 1894 President Cleaveland used troops to break the Pullman strike 14 of 42 1896 Plessy V Ferguson Supreme court case; Only 3% of factory workers belonged to unions 15 of 42 1905 Du Bois founded the Niagra Movement 16 of 42 1909 Foundation of the NAACP 17 of 42 1915 Re-founding of the Ku Klux Klan (4.5 million members by 1924) 18 of 42 1919 Race Riots; Coal and steel strikes crushed by troops 19 of 42 1919-20 The 'Great Red Scare' 20 of 42 1924 Native Americans became Citizens 21 of 42 1928 Meriam Report 22 of 42 1933-41 New Deal 23 of 42 1934 Indian Reorganisations Act 24 of 42 1935 Wagner Act 25 of 42 1936-37 Chrysler and General Motors finally recognise unions 26 of 42 1943 Smith - Connally Act 27 of 42 1947 Taft - Hartley Act 28 of 42 1948 US Armed forces desegregated 29 of 42 1955 Montgomery Buss Boycott - Rise of Martin Luther King to national prominence 30 of 42 1956 Foundation of Southern Christian Leadership Conference 31 of 42 1957 Civil Rights Act; Central High, LittleRock, Arkansas case 32 of 42 1964 Civil Rights Act 33 of 42 1965 Voting Rights Act 34 of 42 1968 Assassination of Martin Luther King 35 of 42 1969 Introduction of Affirmative Action; Bussing in education Began 36 of 42 1973 Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision on Abortion 37 of 42 1978 Bakke Case in Supreme Court on Affirmative Action 38 of 42 1984 Grove City v Bell Supreme Court on Affirmative Action 39 of 42 1988 Civil Rights Restoration Act 40 of 42 1990 Duro V Reina Supreme Court decision on civil rights laws 41 of 42 1992 Supreme court supported attacks on school desegregation (Freeman v Pitts) 42 of 42
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