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This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
A slave plantation is still running in the year 2004, although this amendment that banned slavery was ratified in 1865.
What is the 14th amendment
The 11 secessionist slave-holding states that fought against the North in the civil war.
What is the Confederacy/ Confederate States of America?
This amendment gives people the right to own weapons.
What is the 2nd amendment?
This amendment allowed men of all races to vote.
This clause in the 14th amendment stops the government from taking anyone's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness during legal procedures.
What is the Due Process Clause?
This term is used to describe when a state or territory leaves the main government.
Withdrawal of Southern states from the Union after Lincoln’s 1860 election.
What is secession?
This amendment gives people the right against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the 8th amendment?
This amendment is at the center of the debate regarding prisoners being forced to do manual labor without pay.
What is the 13th amendment?
This Clause of the 14th amendment ensures that the government gives everyone equal protection under the law.
What is the equal protection clause?
These are the southern laws that were passed to discriminate against black people and intimidate them.
What are Jim Crow Laws/ Black Codes?
This amendment gives individuals the right to freely petition the government to change a law they do not agree with.
What is the first amendment?
This amendment establishes that the government cannot deprive you of your life, liberty and property; the methods of obtaining citizenship; and all people must be treated equal under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
Cameron, who is African American, was stopped by voting booth volunteers at the voting booth before he voted. They told him that under the new county law, all black people must bring their birth certificate, drivers license, and social security card so that they can run a background check (takes 2-4 days). They drive him and others of the black community away from voting, which is a violation of what amendment?
What is the 15th amendment?
The period (1865–1877) of reuniting and rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment gives individuals the right to have a grand jury before the trial starts.
What is the 5th amendment?
This amendment was violated in the scenario below.
A police officer pulls over a civilian for driving too fast and arrests him. When he arrives to central booking, they deny his right to a phone call and do not provide him with a lawyer.
What is the 14th amendment?
DOUBLE JEOPARDYYYYYYY
Jake arrives at the federal detention center to serve time, 10 years, for a crime he committed. After he arrived, he began noticing strange and wrong practices by the guards/prison system.
First, Jake was assigned a construction job, where he was mandated to work 8-10 hours a day, 5 days a week, and was paid 1.20 an hour. Second, Jake was forced to work through severe sickness and a fractured arm, as the nurse and guards told him "It is part of your sentence".
Two constitutional amendments were violated here. One of them is not a reconstruction amendment.
What is the 8th and 13th amendments?
This document is Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation freeing enslaved people in Confederate-held areas.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment gives people implicit rights that are not listed in the Constitution.
What is the 9th amendment