Chapter 7

Section 1The Amendments

13th Amendment

• Abolition of slavery

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html

14th Amendment 1868

• Citizenship for African Americans

• “All persons born or naturalized in the US are citizens…”

• No state can deprive any person of life, liberty and property without due process

15th Amendment 1870• Can not deny

the vote to any person on the basis of…

• Race• Color• Previous

condition of servitude

race

color

16th Amendment

• Income tax will now be collected

17th Amendment

• Direct election of Senators

• The United States citizens will elect their senators rather than being elected by the House

• Arlen Specter • Senator from PA

http://blog.politicalnonsense.com/images/posts/2006_06_25t171217_331x450_us_security_eavesdropping.jpg

18th Amendment 1919

• Prohibition of alcohol

• Too many people getting drunk

• Temperance movement

• Speakeasies• Al Capone• Bootleggers

http://thepedia.com/define/Prohibition

19th Amendment 1920• Women

right to vote

• The right to vote shall not be denied by the state on account of sex

http://www.blogwaybaby.com/2005/08/happy-85th-anniversary-of-womens-right.aspx

20th Amendment 1933

• Date of when President will take office is January 20th

• Members of Congress will begin January 3rd

• Lame Duck: defeated Congressmen/women who must remain in office until the 3rd

http://my.homewithgod.com/mkcathy/patriotic/reagan/PresSwearIn_1985.jpg

21st Amendment 1933

• Repeal of the 18th amendment

• WWI • Great Depression• Wanted to give

people the privilege back to them

• Many needed too• veterans

22nd Amendment

• President limited to 2 terms

• No president shall serve more that 2 four year terms

• Franklin D. Roosevelt served 4 terms

http://www.cia.gov/csi/monograph/firstln/roosevelt.html

23rd Amendment• Electoral votes

for the DC• Residents of

Washington DC have the right to vote in presidential elections.

• Before they could not vote for President

http://www.anders.com/pictures/public/04-views/

24th Amendment 1964

•No poll tax•Do not have

to pay a tax in order to vote

http://www.alexandriacentral.org/amendments/amendments.html

25th Amendment 1967• The Vice

President becomes the President if the current President should die or get sick

26th Amendment 1971

• 18 years olds the right to vote

• Because of the Vietnam war many 18 year olds were being drafted into the war.

• If they are old enough to die they are old enough to vote

http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-04-26-voa52.cfm

27th Amendment

•Changing Congressional salaries

• The members of Congress vote themselves a pay increase it can not go into effect until after the next congressional election

http://www.john-daly.com/TwistedPhotos/albums/album19030305051515085707/