Ch. 12 Key Terms - Reconstruction Amendments

The clause of the 14th Amendment that guaranteed citizenship to all former slaves

• Equal Protection Clause

• Due Process Clause

• Citizenship Clause

• Elastic Clause

The clause of the 14th Amendment that prevents rights from being from being taken away by the government without the due process of a trial by jury

• Equal Protection Clause

• Due Process Clause

• Citizenship Clause

• Elastic Clause

The clause of the 14th Amendment that extended the protections in the Bill of Rights to State Governments

• Equal Protection Clause

• Due Process Clause

• Citizenship Clause

• Elastic Clause

What was the time period following the American Civil War called?

• Reconstruction

• The Golden Era

• The Roaring 20's

• The Prohibition Era

The legal right to vote

• Due Process

• Equal Protection Clause

• Suffrage

• Poll Tax

This Amendment abolished slavery in the United States

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

This amendment stated that the right to vote cannot be denied on account of one's race or nationality.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

This amendment granted citizenship to former enslaved persons.

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

Laws created by Southern state legislatures that greatly limited the civil rights and freedom of freedmen (newly freed slaves).

• Due Process laws

• Bill of Rights protections

• Reconstruction Amendments

• Black Codes

1896 Supreme Court Decision that determined "separate but equal" institutions were constitutional. This allowed legal segregation in the United States.

• Brown V. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Gideon v. Wainwright