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Rights of Americans

Rights of Americans. Civil Rights Voting Rights. Civil Rights. Civil Rights: rights guaranteed to all Americans Constitution and Bill of Rights are foundation of Civil Rights in US Civil War led to Civil Rights becoming a federal issue. Thirteenth Amendment.

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Rights of Americans

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  1. Rights of Americans Civil Rights Voting Rights

  2. Civil Rights • Civil Rights: rights guaranteed to all Americans • Constitution and Bill of Rights are foundation of Civil Rights in US • Civil War led to Civil Rights becoming a federal issue

  3. Thirteenth Amendment • 1865: Outlawed slavery in all states and lands governed by the United States • Note: Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 only outlawed slavery in the Confederate states

  4. Fourteenth Amendment • 1868: Granted full citizenship to African Americans • Declared no state could take away life, liberty, or property without due process of law • Guaranteed equal protection under the laws

  5. Voting Rights • Colonial Days: Only free, white men who owned property could vote • Some states expanded this to any white, tax-paying male • Only landowners could hold public office

  6. Voting Rights (continued) • Constitution never mentions voting rights • Results in many groups (women, African Americans, poor citizens) from voting • Between 1870 and 1971, six amendments changed this by extending suffrage to all US citizens • Suffrage: The Right to Vote

  7. Fifteenth Amendment • 1870: No one can be denied suffrage because of race or color • Mainly applied to African American men • Southern states passed many laws to challenge 15th Amendment • 1960s: civil rights laws guaranteed voting rights

  8. Seventeenth Amendment • 1913: Direct election of Senators • Before this, state legislature’s elected Senators • Strengthened direct representation • Senators closer to voters than other politicians

  9. Nineteenth Amendment • 1920: All women get right to vote • 1890: Wyoming was the first state for women’s suffrage • Other states followed suit before the national law • Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucretia Mott, &Elizabeth Cady Stanton leaders of women’s suffrage movement

  10. Twenty-third Amendment • 1961: District of Columbia gains right to vote for president and vice president

  11. Twenty-sixth Amendment • 1971: Lowered the voting age in all elections to age 18 • Previous laws were 21 years of age • Resulted from many young men fighting in the Vietnam War (old enough to fight, old enough to vote)

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