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

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

3. 13th Amendment Abolished slavery
Slavery is now ILLEGAL in all 50 states
Known as a Civil War Amendment

4. 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

5. 15th Amendment Gives African American males the right to vote
Civil War Amendment

6. 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

7. 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!

8. 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