Reconstruction & Voting Amendments

made poll taxes illegal

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

guarantees all Americans "equal protection of the laws"

• 14th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

made it so that senators are elected directly by the people

• 17th Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

• 15th Amendment

granted citizens of Washington, D.C. the right to vote in national elections

• 23rd Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

outlawed slavery

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

says that a person cannot be denied the right to vote because of their race

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

banned forced labor, except in prisons

• 13th Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

• 24th Amendment

defines a citizen a citizen as anyone “born or naturalized in the United States”

• 14th Amendment

• 26th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

lowered the voting age to 18 years old

• 19th Amendment

• 23rd Amendment

• 26th Amendment

granted women nationwide the right to vote 

• 19th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 26th Amendment