Unit 4, Lesson 7 Additional Important Amendments

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Unit 4, Lesson 7 Additional Important Amendments Essential Question: What other amendments are of great importance? Why?

The Civil War Amendments 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment

13th Amendment Abolished slavery Slavery is now ILLEGAL in all 50 states Known as a Civil War Amendment

14th Amendment Right to citizenship of any person born or naturalized in the United States Equal Protection Under the Law Also a Civil War Amendment

15th Amendment Gives African American males the right to vote Civil War Amendment

19th Amendment Right to vote extended to women Not passed until 1920! Suffragettes Wore white as a symbol for equality Marched, even went to jail

24th Amendment Eliminated poll taxes Required you pay a fee to vote Designed to keep African Americans and poor Whites from voting Today, all voting is FREE!

26th Amendment Guaranteed the right for any citizen to vote at the age of 18 Before this, the voting age in many places was 21 Amendment was created because young men were being drafted to war at age 18, yet they couldn’t vote