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Extended Bill of Rights Goal 2
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Eleventh Amendment Placed limits on suits against states.
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Twelfth Amendment Changed the procedure for electing president and vice-president.
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Thirteenth Amendment Passed in 1865 Officially outlawed slavery in the United States Outlawed any sort of forced labor, except as a punishment for a crime.
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Fourteenth Amendment Supreme Court Cases: Scott v. Sanford- ruled that blacks were not citizens and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional Plessy v Fergusson - rules Separate but Equal Brown v Board of Education – overturned Separate but equal Passed in 1868 granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States Banned states from denying any person life liberty, or property without due process of law and it banned states from denying any person equal protection under the law.
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Fifteenth Amendment Last Civil War Amendment Guaranteed the right to vote to African Americans Only gave men the right to vote Individual states had the power to decide whether women could vote regardless of race
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Sixteenth Amendment Gives the authority to levy income taxes.
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Seventeenth Amendment Was passed to allow voter to elect there senate directly Changed the election process which Americans a greater voice in there government
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Eighteenth Amendment Prohibition of Alcohol
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Nineteenth Amendment Was passed in 1920 Gave women the right to vote in all national and state elections.
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Twentieth Amendment Changes the beginning of Presidential and Congressional terms
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Twenty-first Amendment Repeals Prohibition
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Twenty-second Amendment Establishes a two term limit for President
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Twenty-Third Amendment Enabled residence who lived in Washington D.C. to able to vote. Citizens of D.C. could not vote until the passage of the 23 rd Amendment because D.C. was not a state
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Twenty-Fourth Amendment Was passed in 1964 Abolished poll taxes making them illegal in national elections Two years later the Supreme Court ruled that poll taxes were illegal in state elections
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Twenty-fifth Amendment Defines the succession of the office of President
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Twenty Sixth Amendment Before the passage of the 26 th Amendment in 1971 the minimum voting age was 21. The passage of the 26 th Amendment lowered the minimum voting age to 18yo.
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Twenty Seventh Amendment Placed limits on Congressional pay raises until the next term.
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