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Hace 1 día · A brief synopsis of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution, along with links to articles on each, is provided in the table.
- Provisions
Proposed amendments must be ratified by three-fourths of the...
- Civil Liberties, Bill of Rights
After the American Civil War, three new constitutional...
- Sixteenth Amendment
Sixteenth Amendment, amendment (1913) to the Constitution of...
- Provisions
Hace 2 días · After the American Civil War and the subsequent abolition of slavery in the 1860s, the Reconstruction Amendments to the United States Constitution granted emancipation and constitutional rights of citizenship to all African Americans, most of whom had recently been enslaved.
Hace 21 horas · How did the Reconstruction amendments change the Constitution? -They established the federal government as the protector of rights. -They expanded the definition of citizenship to include non-whites.
Hace 2 días · Jim Crow law, any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the U.S. South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-20th century. The segregation principle was codified on local and state levels and most famously with the Supreme Court’s ‘separate but equal’ decision in Plessy v.
Hace 3 días · In December 1863 Lincoln announced a general plan for the orderly Reconstruction of the Southern states, promising to recognize the government of any state that pledged to support the Constitution and the Union and to emancipate enslaved
Hace 5 días · Between 1865 and 1870, the states ratified the Reconstruction Amendments, which abolished slavery, guaranteed equal protection of the law, and implemented prohibitions on the restriction of voter rights.
Hace 2 días · Reconstruction and New Deal era. In the 1883 landmark Civil Rights Cases, the United States Supreme Court had ruled that Congress did not have the power to prohibit discrimination in the private sector, thus stripping the Civil Rights Act of 1875 of much of its ability to protect civil rights.
