The Constitutional Amendments that Protected Civil Rights After the American Civil War

🗽The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States on April 8th, 1864.

📜The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people and prohibited states from depriving citizens of their rights.

🏛️The Fourteenth Amendment redefined representation for states, overturning the three-fifths compromise.

🗳️The Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.

🤔Women's suffrage was not included in the Reconstruction Amendments and women didn't gain the right to vote until 1920.

When was slavery abolished in the United States?

—Slavery was abolished in the United States with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment on April 8th, 1864.

What did the Fourteenth Amendment grant?

—The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people and prohibited states from depriving citizens of their rights.

What was the impact of the Fourteenth Amendment on representation?

—The Fourteenth Amendment redefined representation for states, overturning the three-fifths compromise.

Who was granted the right to vote by the Fifteenth Amendment?

—The Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.

When did women gain the right to vote?

—Women gained the right to vote in the United States with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920.

00:05The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

00:55The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people and redefined representation for states.

02:21The Fifteenth Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.

02:46Congress excluded women's suffrage, and women didn't gain the right to vote until 1920.