1. The Amendments

2. Learning Targets
Success Criteria
Comprehend the language and explanation of the amendments
I can give a brief description of each of the amendments discussed.
Understand the implications of the amendments
I can give examples of how the amendments influenced the African American population .

3. Background Constitution Amendments How to pass an amendment
Bill of Rights
How to pass an amendment
2/3 of the House and Senate approve of the proposal and ¾ of states
OR a Constitutional Convention

4. 13th Amendment
January 31, 1865
Originally, was a protection for slavery!
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.“.
Basically saying slavery is no longer legal
Didn’t take effect until 1866

5. 14th Amendment Congress-June 13, 1866 Ratified July 9th 1868
All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens .
Rebels banned from government.

6. 15th Amendment Congress- Feb. 26, 1869 Ratified- Feb. 3, 1870
prohibits federal or state governments from infringing on a citizen's right to vote
"on account of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude."
Only applied to African American men

7. How did they manage to do this?
Lack of southern presence in Congress
War ended
Didn’t mean they stopped supporting slavery
Scalawags