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Ratification
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The 13th amendment was a constitutional amendment and was ratified in 1865.
When was the 13th amendment ratified?
100
The 14th amendment gave citizenship to everyone except Native Americans.
Who did the 14th amendment give citizenship to?
100
The 15th amendment was a constitutional amendment, ratified in 1870.
When was the 15th amendment ratified?
100
All our current amendments were proposed by Congress.
Who proposed all our amendments?
100
After it is proposed, an amendment has to be ratified.
What happens after an amendment is proposed?
200
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What did the 13th amendment do?
200

The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all Americans regardless of race.

What did the 14th amendment grant?

200
The 15th amendment gave all American men the right to vote, it didn't matter what race or wealth.
What did the 15th amendment do?
200
An amendment can be proposed by 2/3 vote of Congress.
What percent of Congress proposes an amendment?
200
Only the 21st amendment used the state convention method.
What amendment used the state convention method?
300
The 13th amendment was the first big change in reconstruction.
What was the first big change in reconstruction?
300
The 14th amendment guaranteed that the liberties given to them from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 couldn't be taken away.
What did the 14th amendment guarantee?
300
The 15th amendment let poor whites and black people vote.
Who did the 15th amendment let vote?
300
Since 1787, over 9,000 amendments have been proposed but only 27 amendments have been approved.
How many amendments have been approved?
300
An amendment can be ratified by 3/4 of the state legislature or the states.
What percent can ratify an amendment?
400
The 13th amendment helped slaves, it freed them from slavery and they became freedmen.
Who did the 13th amendment help slaves?
400
The 14th amendment was drafted by Radical Republicans in 1866 and was ratified in 1868.
When was the 14th amendment ratified?
400
Radical Republicans required southern states to ratify the 15th amendment, if they didn't they couldn't join back with the Union.
What did Radical Republicans require?
400
2/3 of Congress or the states have to vote to propose an amendment, this is the first part of making an amendment.
What is the first part of making an amendment?
400
Ratification is the last step to making an amendment, if the amendment isn't ratified by 3/4 it has to go back to proposal.
What happens if an amendment isn't ratified?
500
Southern states were required to acknowledge and ratify the amendment before they could rejoin the Union.
What were the southern states required to do?
500
The 14th amendment became an amendment in 1868.
What year did the 14th amendment become an amendment?
500
The 15th amendments ratification angered suffragettes, woman still couldn't vote but freedmen could.
Why did the 15th amendment anger suffragettes?
500

An amendment can be proposed by either 2/3 vote in Congress House and Senate or a national convention made up of 2/3 of the states.

Who can propose an amendment?

500
An amendment has to be ratified by either 3/4 of the state legislature or 3/4 of the states at a state convention.
Who can ratify an amendment?