Jim Crow laws were state and local laws passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights, such as the right to vote.
The Supreme Court voted to end Public School segregation. It was a landmark case that overturned the 'Separate but Equal' Legislation proving that the schools were separate, but not equal.
1. limits the government to the powers which the Constitution delegated to it (strict construction)
2. gathering for the purpose of creating a Constitution which laid down the laws for running the U.S. (Constitutional Convention)
3. Republican President during the Civil War (Abraham Lincoln)
4. began as a series of anti-slavery political meetings held in the Midwest in 1854 (Republican Party)
5. free interpretation of the Constitution, allowing the government all powers not denied it (loose construction)
6. started the Democratic Party
(Andrew Jackson)
