Rights for the people created by denying the government power
Segregation
- Dred Scott v Sanford (1857)
- Is a black man on free soil free from slavery?
- Taney said no because slaves are not citizens
- Civil War Amendments
- 13th Amendment
- Ends slavery
- 14th Amendment
- Equal protection under the law
- Birthright citizenship
- 15th Amendment
- Voting rights for African American men
- 13th Amendment
- Just because the south loses the war doesn’t change their opinion on African Americans and their social standing