Reconstruction Amendments- ______________________________________________
Actual Amendment
The Amendment in YOUR words
13th AmendmentNeither 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.
Impact on the United States
13th AmendmentBANS SLAVERY in the US
14th Amendment-
14th Amendment-
All persons born or naturalized in
the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens
of the United States and of the
State wherein they reside.
Grants citizenship to all persons born
in the US and guarantees protection
under the law.
15th Amendment-
15th Amendment-
The right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States or
by any State on account of race,
color, or previous condition of
servitude.
Ensures all citizens the right to vote
regardless of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude.
Exodusters leave for Kansas;
Lynching increases in South
Black citizens begin to be
segregated from whites;
"separate but equal"
Southern state legislatures
adopted poll taxes, instituted
grandfather clauses, or required
citizens to pass, literacy tests in
order to be able to vote.
These voting restrictions were all
loopholes, or legal ways to get
around the 15th amendment
because they did not say "you
cannot vote because you are
black."