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The Civil & The Civil & Voting Rights Voting Rights AmendmentsAmendments
Mr. P’s Class
Civil Rights Amendments
•KEY QUESTIONKEY QUESTION
Which groups of people were left Which groups of people were left out of the original Constitution? out of the original Constitution? How did the Civil Rights How did the Civil Rights Amendments fix these injustices? Amendments fix these injustices? Give three examples.Give three examples.
Civil & Voting Rights • CIVIL RIGHTS – (Rights guaranteed to all Americans).
Civil Rights Amendments
•Civil Rights Amendments13th Amendment - RATIFIED (approved) in 1865, outlawed slavery in the United States.
Civil Rights Amendments
14th Amendment (1868) - granted full citizenship to African-Americans.
This did not This did not include include Native-Native-Americans Americans because at because at the time they the time they could not could not become become citizens.citizens.
Civil Rights Amendments
2nd clause - no state can take away the rights of a U.S. citizen.
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Voting Rights Amendments
•Voting Rights Amendments
SUFFRAGE - (Fighting for the right to vote).
Voting Rights Amendments
15TH Amendment (1870) - guaranteed that any man, black or white, shall be allowed to vote.
Voting Rights AmendmentsTHEY LOOK NUN-TOO HAPPY!!!THEY LOOK NUN-TOO HAPPY!!!
Voting Rights Amendments17th Amendment (1913) - State LEGISLATORS (elected representatives who make laws) elected U.S. Senators.
Voters choose their two U.S. Senators.
Voting Rights Amendments
19th Amendment (1920) - women may vote regardless of the state that they live in. Prior to this amendment, several states did allow women the right to vote.
Civil Rights Amendments
23rd Amendment (1961) - People in Washington DC can vote in national elections.
Civil Rights Amendments
24th Amendment - (1964) •Forbade the use of any restriction to voting, other than proof of citizenship.
Civil Rights Amendments
The 24The 24thth Amendment Amendment is one of the is one of the things that things that Rev. Martin Rev. Martin Luther King Luther King and and thousands of thousands of others were others were fighting for.fighting for.
Civil Rights Amendments
26th Amendment (1971)- voting age lowered from 21 to 18.
Civil Rights Amendments
•KEY QUESTIONKEY QUESTION
Which groups of people were left Which groups of people were left out of the original Constitution? out of the original Constitution? How did the Civil Rights How did the Civil Rights Amendments fix these injustices? Amendments fix these injustices? Give three examples.Give three examples.
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