Amendments

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What is an amendment?

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A change or addition

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The 18th Amendment, Prohibition, was repealed by the ____ Amendment. This is the only amendment in US history to get rid of an earlier amendment.

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21st

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The 14th Amendment states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Today, this amendment gives natural born citizenship meaning babies born in the US are automatically citizens. The amendment was originally designed to grant citizenship to

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recently freed slaves

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President Lincoln helped make sure this amendment was passed to solve the main problem that had led to the Civil War and to expand his earlier Emancipation Proclamation to apply to the whole country. What is this amendment?

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13

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22nd Amendment

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Allows president to serve 2 terms

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16th Amendment

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Collecting taxes on income

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13th Amendment

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Abolished Slavery

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14th Amendment

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Grants Citizenship to anyone Born or Naturalized within the United States

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19th Amendment

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Women's Suffrage

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21st Amendment

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Repeals 18th Amendment