7.+Amendments

  **__Amendments__** Three amendments that were added to the Constitution of the United States, after the Civil War, were the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. • The 13th --- The thirteenth amendment gave all African Americans freedom in the United States. • The thirteenth amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865. • The 14th --- The fourteenth amendment gave citizenship to African Americans in America.

• The fourteenth amendment was added to the Constitution on July 9, 1868. • The 15th --- The fifteenth amendment gave African Americans the right to vote in the U.S. •  The fifteenth amendment was adopted February 3, 1870. • The fourteenth and fifteenth amendment granted African Americans more rights than women. The fourteenth amendment gave citizenship to free slaves, while women weren’t granted the right to have citizenship. • The fifteenth amendment gave African Americans the right to vote in the United States while women were still fighting for suffrage. [] 

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Facts on File American History Online Web site: http://www.fofweb.com/NuHistory/default.asp?ItemID=WE52&NewItemID=True  By: Ian Randall and Connor Beardmore