The Rest of the Amendments

"The must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience." - William Lloyd Garrison

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

He acknowledged in his Personal Memoirs that he initially supported the idea that African Americans would first experience “a time of probation, in which the ex-slaves could prepare themselves for the privileges of citizenship..." - President U.S. Grant

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

Nearly 100 years after it's ratification, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally made the promise of this voting rights amendment a reality, preventing states from using race as a way to discriminate.

• 11th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

On November 5, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a third term in office—an unprecedented act that would be barred by a constitutional amendment a decade later.

• 12th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

• 25th Amendment

Proposed by Congress and ratified by the states in the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, it provides the procedures for replacing the president or vice president in the event of death, removal, resignation, or incapacitation.

• 12th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

• 25th Amendment

When John Adams, a Federalist, won the presidency in 1796, and Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic Republican, won the vice-presidency, we had a problem. Which amendment solved this issue?

• 12th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

• 25th Amendment

The “Lame Duck Amendment" was designed to remove the excessively long period of time a defeated president or member of Congress would continue to serve after his or her failed bid for reelection.

• 12th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

• 25th Amendment

Which amendment best fits opinion expressed on the button?

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

"It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's right, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any State to deny." - Susan B. Anthony arguing against voter discrimination by sex, 1872

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

"The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• 15th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• 26th Amendment