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Amendments

Amendments. BY: Adelee Faulk & Shelley Culver. 13 th Amendment. Passed January 1865 Abolished slavery in all parts of the U.S. 14 th Amendment. Passed June 1866 Gave full citizenship to all people born in the U.S. (including African Americans)

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Amendments

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  1. Amendments BY: Adelee Faulk & Shelley Culver

  2. 13th Amendment • Passed January 1865 • Abolished slavery in all parts of the U.S.

  3. 14th Amendment • Passed June 1866 • Gave full citizenship to all people born in the U.S. (including African Americans) • No state could take away a citizens life, liberty, and property without “due process of law”

  4. 15th Amendment • Passed February 1869 • Gave voting right to all males no matter “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”

  5. RIGHTS • 14 - Men of any race had more rights than women of any race and if states tried to prevent men from voting they would lose representation in congress • 15 – Only adult males had the right to vote even though women had been fighting to gain this specific right

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