Civil War, Reconstructions and the Birth of the Second Bill of Rights

 Civil War and Reconstruction Timeline-

• 1857- Dred Scott

African-Americans are not citizens

• 1860- Elected

Lincon

• 1861- Ft. Sumter

Civil War                  

•  Law

Suspension of Habeas Corpus 

Silence Critics

• 1863- Document

Eman Proc

• 1865- Event

South Loses

• Law

13th Amendment~ Ban Slavery

• 1868- Law

14th Amendment~ Citizenship

• 1870- 15th Amendment

Vote

^All the Reconstruction Amendments^

• 1873- Slaughterhouse Cases

P.I. Closed Down

• 1875- Civil Rights Act

Banned Discrimination in Public Accomdations~ private property that is open to the public

Public~ Owned by Government

Public Accomidations~ Grocery Store Ammusement Park

Private~ NOT Owned by Government

• 1883- Civil Rights Cases

Struck Down Civil Rights Act

• 1886- Santa Clara Rail Road

Corporate Personhood~A corporation is made up of people, therefore, it is treated as a person under the 14th amendment.

Substantive Due Process~ Mechanism by which the Court adds substance to the word liberty in order to give it new meanings.

• 1896- Plessy V. Ferguson

Separate but Equal

Recon.           Jim Crow

Use the power of law to discriminate- Poll Tax

State Action Docetrine~ Without government involvement, no constitutional claim could be made because only the government can violate your constitutional rights; therefore the first amendment doesn’t reach private actors (not government).

3 clauses or freedoms of the 14th amendment

1. Privalges or imunites

2. Due Process

3. Equal Protection