1. Extending the Bill of Rights
C & E

2. EQs
How were the Civil War Amendments intended to extend civil liberties to blacks?
How did the 17th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, & 26th Amendments extend voting rights in the US?

3. Key Terms
Suffrage
Poll Tax

4. Key Concepts
Individual rights of citizens
Civil & personal liberties

5. Background
The Bill of Rights est rules for protect’g rights & liberties of citizens – but not for all Americans
Women, blacks, & adults under 21 were barred from certain rights
Some amendments will change the way gov’t worked
Other amendments changed the rights of Americans, offering basic freedoms to those grps previously ignored
8 amendments will extend the Bill of Rights

6. Civil War Amendments 13th Amendment Officially ended slavery in US
Freed 1000s of black slaves
Outlawed any sort of forced labor, except as punishment for a crime

7. Civil War Amendments
Southern states after Civil War passed “Black Codes”
Prevented blacks from doing a lot of things
1868 – passage of 14th Amendment
Defines citizens
Anyone born or naturalized in US
Equal protection of the laws
Used to benefit women, people w/ disabilities, & other grps
Forbids states from interfering w/ “privileges or immunities of citizens of the US”
Gov’t may not take “life, liberty, or property” w/o due process of law
Called the Nationalization of the Bill of Rights

8. Civil War Amendments 14th Amendment used in Gitlow v. New York
14th Amendment safeguards free speech & free press “from impairment by the states”
US citizens in every part of US have same rights

9. Civil War Amendments 15th Amendment Suffrage Protected only men
No state may take away a person’s voting rights on the basis of race, color, or previous enslavement
Suffrage
The right to vote
Protected only men

10. 17th Amendment
Passed in order to allow voters to elect their senators directly
Gave Americans a greater voice in gov’t

12. 19th Amendment Women were denied the right to vote by the states
Starting w/ Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton – pushed for suffrage
1920 – passage of 19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote in Nat’l & state elections

14. 23rd Amendment
The people in D.C. were not in a state – so could not vote in nat’l elections
23rd Amendment guarantees people in D.C. right to vote in nat’l elections
President & V.P.

15. 24th Amendment Southern states had poll taxes
Voters must pay a sum of money before casting a ballot
1964 – 24th Amendment made poll taxes illegal in nat’l elections
1966 – Supreme Court ruled poll taxes illegal in state elections

16. 26th Amendment
Young adults had been fight’g for their country for years
Voting age was however – 21
1971 – during the Vietnam War
26th Amendment
Guaranteed the right to vote to citizens 18 and older in nat’l & state elections