Jermaine Riddick
Amendments in the Constitution gave African Americans there equal rights. The 14th
Amendment was about the grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United
States, which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. The 19th
amendment was a United States constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the
right to vote based on sex. These amendments changed the United States of America. These 2
amendments gave blacks the right to vote.
The 14th Amendment (1868) was about the grants citizenship to all persons born or
naturalized in the United States, which included former slaves who had just been freed after the
Civil War. Everybody got to have equal rights and equal protection because everyone is human.
Slaves got to be citizens of the United States and had equal rights. Another positive outcome due
to the 14th amendment was the slaves weren’t property of the whites anymore. The 14th
Amendment Known as the "Reconstruction Amendment," it forbids any state to deny any person
"life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. A lot of slaves were property of the white people.
The 14th amendment was that the amendment got rejected in the south because it was ratified by
the required three-fourths of the states. There were many positive outcomes and many negative
outcomes due to the 14th amendment.
The 19th Amendment (1920) to the Constitution of the United States was men and women
with equal voting rights. The amendment states that the right of citizens to vote "shall not be
denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Although this
equality was implied in the 14th Amendment (1868), most of the states continued to restrict or
prohibit women's suffrage. In May, 1919, the necessary two-thirds vote in favor of the women
suffrage amendment was finally mustered in Congress, and the proposed amendment was sent to
the states for ratification. The 19th amendment was by July 1920, with a number of primarily
southern states adamantly opposed to the amendment, it all came down to Tennessee. It appeared
that the amendment might fail by one vote in the Tennessee house, but twenty-four-year-old
Harry Burns surprised observers by casting the deciding vote for ratification. The Constitution
allows the states to vote, and until the 1910s most states women wanted equal rights. The 19th
amendment was the ending point of the Women’s suffrage in the United States women's suffrage
movement in the United States which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote.
Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the amendment in 1878.On August 18, 1920,
Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, giving it the two-thirds majority of
state ratification necessary to make it the law of the land. Eight days later, the 19th Amendment
took effect.
There were many negative and positive outcomes due to the 14th and 19th amendment. It
changed African American lives. These amendments gave them equal rights and they were no
longer owned by white people. If these amendments where never created, blacks would still be
owned by whites and would have no equal rights.