Reconstruction, Progressive and Suffrage Amendments

This amendment requires states to provide all citizens with "due process of law"-trial by jury when accused of crime

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• 15th amendment

This amendment guaranteed voting rights to all persons that were formally enslaved

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This amendment abolished slavery throughout the nation

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This amendment granted citizenship to all former slaves.

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This amendment applied the protections of the Bill of Rights to the states.

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After the Civil War, Southern state legislatures attempted to restrict former slaves rights--how did Congress react?

• created the Freedman's Bureau

• enacted new laws to punish the South

• proposed the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments

• Supported settlements of former plantation lands

Primary reason for the passage of the 14th amendment?

• punish the South for secession from the Union

• continue the Presidential plan for Reconstruction

• uphold the legality of the Black Codes

• guarantee citizenship rights for newly freed slaves

After the Civil War, the purpose of adding the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution was to?

• expand educational opportunities for Native American Indians

• allow women to become full citizens

• guarantee African Americans equal treatment under the law

• extend constitutional rights to new territories

How did ratification of the 14th amendment change the US?

• It established citizenship laws and quotas for new immigrants

• It allowed only skilled workers to become US citizens

• It granted US citizenship to African Americans

• It increased the residency requirements needed for US citizenship

During the Reconstruction Era, the 15th amendment was adopted to grant African Americans

• educational opportunites

• economic equality

• freedom of speech

• voting rights