Civics Chapter 4 Lesson 3

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were written and ratified because

• Thirteenth Amendment had not guaranteed the full rights of former slaves.

• Thirteenth Amendment had gone too far in supporting “Jim Crow” laws.

What did the Nineteenth Amendment accomplish?

• It guaranteed women the right to vote

• It freed slaves and outlawed slavery and other forced labor

People who live in the District of Columbia

• have always had the right to vote in national elections.

• gained the right to vote in national elections during the 1960s

Which amendment gave people the right to elect senators directly?

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

How was slavery finally abolished in the United States?

• The Thirteenth Amendment was passed

• It was part of the treaty that was signed to end the Civil War

suffrage- right to vote

• true

• false

poll tax- sum of money paid before casting a ballot

• true

• false

Black codes- extended civil liberties to African Americans

• true

• false

Black codes- restricted rights of African Americans after the Civil War

• true

• false

Gitlow v. New York- ruled that state governments must honor the Bill of Rights

• true

• false