Extending the Bill of Rights

Chapter 4 Section 3

Vocabulary:

• Suffrage – the right to vote

• Poll Tax – Money paid to the government in exchange for the right to vote

1. How did many states before the Civil War get away with violating the civil liberties of certain groups of Americans? • The Bill of Rights only limited the federal

government and they used their reserved rights to make laws that violated the civil liberties of certain groups

2. What are the Civil War Amendments?

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

3. What did the 13th Amendment make illegal? • Officially outlawed slavery in the United States

4. According to the 14th Amendment, who is an American Citizen? • Anyone born or naturalized in the United

States

5. What does the 14th Amendment guarantee to every American Citizen? • Due Process

6. What effect did Gitlow vs. New York have on the way the Bill of Rights applies to the states? • All citizens in all of the states were protected

by the Bill of Rights and the states could not do anything to infringe on those rights.

7. According to the 15th Amendment, what could no longer affect a person’s right to vote? Who was left out? • A persons race, color, or previous enslavement

could not prevent them from voting

• Did not apply to gender

8. After the 17th Amendment was passed what government officials were the American Citizens able to vote for?

• Senators

• Before this the House of Representatives elected Senators

9. Why were women not allowed to vote in most states originally? • States used the 10th Amendment to write their

own laws preventing women from voting

10. Name two of the most influential early leaders for women suffrage. • Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

11. What did the 19th Amendment do? When was it passed? • Passed in 1920 it allowed women the right to

vote

12. The 23rd Amendment allowed American Citizens living where to vote in federal elections? • Washington D.C.

13. Why were poll taxes charged?

• They were used as away to keep African Americans and poor whites in the south from voting without violating their constitutional rights.

14. What did the 24th Amendment make illegal?

• It made it illegal to charge a poll tax in federal

elections

• The supreme court later decided that it applied to state elections as well

15. What did the 26th Amendment do for young American Citizens? Why

was this important?

• It allowed any citizen 18 years old or older to be able to vote.

• At age 18 you can join the military