Station 2: Civil Rights Amendments

The 15th Amendment stated that voting rights could not be refused to anyone based on: 

• Race
• Gender
• Age
• Height

The first of the Reconstruction Amendments, this amendment went hand in hand with President Lincoln's wishes in the Emancipation Proclamation.

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 19th

People like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are credited with fighting for this, which would be granted by the 19th amendment. 

• Abolition of slavery
• Voting age lowered
• Women's suffrage (right to vote)
• Free speech. 

What age did the 26th amendment lower the voting age to? 

• 21
• 18
• 16
• 25

After the slaves were freed, the question came up of how to handle their future in the United States. The 14th Amendment helped do so by: 

• Granting jobs to the newly freedmen. 
• Granting former slaves the right to vote. 
• Paying the former slaves money for their troubles. 
• Defining and protecting their citizenship in the United States

The 24th Amendment helped the poorer citizens of the United States, especially the African-American population,  voting rights by eliminating: 

• Poll taxes
• Literacy tests
• Age restrictions 
• Segregation 

Due to the lack of fair and equal access to education for African-Americans, many found it hard to vote prior to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This act banned things such as: 

• Poll taxes
• Literacy testing 
• Age discrimination
• Segregation