Reconstruction Amendments

This amendment required states to provide all citizens with "due process of law" --trial by a jury when accused of wrongdoing. 

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• This amendment guaranteed voting rights to all persons that were formerly enslaved. 

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This amendment abolished slavery throughout the nation, confirming the intent of the Emancipation Proclamation.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

This amendment granted U.S. citizenship to all formerly enslaved people.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

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

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

The Reconstruction Amendments were the first amendments added to the U.S. Constitution in six decades. 

True or False: ​All three of these amendments were designed to ensure political equality for recently emancipated [freed] slaves​

• True

• False

The information in the table supports the conclusion that

• Most Republicans supported an equal number of free and slave states.

• Strong support existed in the nation for the Reconstruction Amendments.

• Support for the amendments varied depending on political party affiliation.

• The Republicans sought to open new territories in the North to slavery.

What event brought about the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment?

• The removal of federal soldiers in the South during Reconstruction.

• The assassination of the President Abraham Lincoln.

• The end of the Civil War and passage of the Emancipation Proclamation.

• The need to promote equal educational prospects for minority groups.

"No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges ... of citizens ... nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ...."

The major purpose of these provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment was to

• limit the federal government's power

• expand the civil rights of women

• maintain competition in business

• protect African-American rights