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The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments — Homework
Answer in complete sentences.
- 1.In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, and what did it abolish?
- 2.In what year was the Fifteenth Amendment ratified, and what did it protect?
- 3.How did the Fourteenth Amendment directly overturn the Dred Scott decision?
- 4.Name one way southern states undermined the Fifteenth Amendment's promise in the decades after it passed.
- 5.Write a paragraph explaining why it is accurate to say the Reconstruction Amendments transformed rights "on paper" without immediately guaranteeing them "in practice."
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