What is an example of a law in the U.S. that in the past discriminated against a specific group of people?

Question

What is an example of a law in the U.S. that in the past discriminated against a specific group of people?

Answer 1

The Jim Crow laws.

Answer 2

You can find the "One Drop Law"  and Hamburger desecration. on line.  There are still others on the books in many states and in some cases enforced.

Answer 3

They used to give literacy tests before you could vote. This was intended to prevent blacks from voting because they were the most likely to be illiterate. Along they same lines, some states used to have poll taxes or required you be a property owner.

Answer 4

Pretty much every treaty we ever signed with the Indians.

Answer 5

After allowing millions of Irish, Italians, Poles, Jews, and other European immigrants, laws have been put on the books to slam the door in the faces of Mexicans.

Oh, you said the past, didn't you?

There was the Chinese Exclusionary Act.  In the late 19th, early 20th century, Chinese MEN were allowed in as guest workers, but very few women.

Though not a matter of law, the famous photograph of the meeting of the transcontinental railroad in Promontory Utah, excluded any Chinese, Mexican, and Black workers who were there.  These groups together outnumbered the white workers, but were not allowed in the photo.

Answer 6

1937 Marihuana Tax Act that indirectly targeted and labeled Mexicans giving them the reputation and stereotypes they now have today. Look it up if you dont believe me.

Answer 7

where have you been?

Answer 8

There were plenty in the past.. and we have affirmative action laws doing it in the present.  Looks like we'll never learn..

Answer 9

Poll taxes used in the south to try to disenfranchise blacks from voting.

Answer 10

Alien land laws (Jim Crow era)

Alien Land Laws were a Jim Crow-era tool used in discrimination against Asian Americans. They legalized discrimination in forms such as school segregation, prohibition on interracial marriage, exclusion from desirable housing through racially restrictive covenants and, in their best known form, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Answer 11

Blacks cannot vote/ women cannot vote.

Poll taxes. had to be a landowner to vote. ect.

Answer 12

Well two things that  are in the U.S.'s past are of course slavery and the raping of the Native American's land.

America tries to act like the moral compasss for the world but with a history like that Americans were as Evil as the Media and Government try to portray their middle eastern "enemies"

Answer 13

The law where you had to be able to read to vote, but they would make black people's readings hard as balls, but make white people's reading like "cat" or somfin. It's not directly racist, but it's the same idea.

Answer 14

Jim Crow laws.

Answer 15

Roe v Wade.  Not a law but a court case.  40,000,000 innocent babies murdered to date.   More than the Jews in the Holocaust.

Answer 16

Um, black people not being able to vote. Women not being able to vote. All the segregation laws. Um, hello?

Answer 17

That was the past move on with your life

Only laws now are affirmative action laws