Reconstruction Amendments

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From which amendment is the excerpt "The right of citizens...to vote shall not be denied...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude" taken? Options: 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th

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15th

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After the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, African Americans continued to experience political and economic oppression mainly because

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Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws

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Why did President Lincoln feel the need to pass the 13th Amendment, when the Emancipation Proclamation was already in place?

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The Emancipation Proclamation only freed rebellion state slaves during the war

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What was the primary reason for the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868)?

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to guarantee citizenship rights to newly freed slaves

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After the Civil War, the purpose of adding the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution was to:

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guarantee African Americans equal treatment under the law

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What does the 15th Amendment to the Constitution primarily concern?

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voting rights

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How did ratification of the 14th Amendment change the United States?

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It granted US citizenship to African Americans.

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Which amendment says that the state governments are forbidden to deny any person life, liberty, or property without due process of law?

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14th

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Why was the Dred Scott case important?

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It ruled that all African Americans (slave or free) were not citizens.

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This amendment guaranteed all citizens equal protection of the laws:

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14th