4.8 STAAR Review Amendments, Laws, & Supreme Court Cases

*Abolished slavery

*Post-Civil War Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

*Citizenship for former slaves

*Includes the equal protection clause

*Post-Civil War amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

*Gave voting rights to all African American men

*Post-Civil War amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

*Allows Congress to collect an income tax

*Progressive amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

*Allows people to vote directly for their US Senators

*Progressive amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

*Prohibits the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol

*Result of the Temperance Movement

*Progressive amendment

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

*Gives women the right to vote

*Result of the Suffrage Movement

*Progressive amendment

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

*Repealed the 18th Amendment

*Made alcohol legal again

*Great Depression amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

*Limits a president to two terms

*Post-WWII amendment

• 21st Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

*Makes poll taxes illegal

*Results in increased political participation of minorities

*Civil Rights amendment

• 21st Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment