Name: ___________________________________ Period: ____________ Date: _________________________
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
13th Amendment: Freed all persons living in servitude (slaves)
14th Amendment: Guaranteed all citizens equality under the law
15th Amendment: Gave all men the right to vote.
Directions: For each of the pictures below, circle the amendment that is being represented.
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The Government has asked the colored man to fight for its preservation and gladly he has
done it. It can afford to trust him with a vote as safely as it trusted him with a bayonet.
-Petition from American citizens of African descent to the Union convention of Tennessee 13 14 15
You be the Detective!
Directions: Using what you know about the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments, identify which
amendment is being illustrated in each of the clues below by writing the number on the line.
______ 1. This amendment extended citizenship to all people born in the United States.
______ 2. While this amendment says that all people living under servitude will be free, it does specify that
you can be punished with involuntary labor if you are found guilty of a crime!
______ 3. African Americans were allowed to show up at the polls to vote, thanks to this amendment.
______ 4. This amendment allows community service to be used as a punishment for committing a crime.
______ 5. In 1896, a case was brought to the Supreme Court regarding equal facilities on a train. The
Supreme Court ruled that as long as the facilities were equal for blacks, the train company’s actions were in
line with this amendment.
______ 6. The poll taxes and Jim Crow laws were two ways that some states tried to get around following this
amendment.
How did the 14th Amendment get passed?
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1. What is a carpetbagger?
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2. Where is the carpetbagger coming from?
Where is he going?
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3. Who does the carpetbagger look like?
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4. Why do you think the carpetbagger is
depicted this way?
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5. What was the role of carpetbaggers in
passing the 14th amendment?
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Lynching is an extrajudicial execution carried out by a mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake or shooting, in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate, control, or otherwise manipulate a population of people. It is related to other means of social control that arise in communities, such as charivari, riding the rail, and tarring and feathering. Lynchings have been more frequent in times of social and economic tension, and have often been means used by the politically dominant population to oppress social challengers. Violence in the United States against African Americans, especially in the South, rose in the aftermath of the Civil War, after slavery had been abolished and recently freed black men were given the right to vote. Violence rose even more at the end of the century, after southern white Democrats regained their political power in the South in the 1870s. States passed new constitutions or legislation, which effectively disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites, established segregation of public facilities by race, and separated blacks from common public life and facilities. Nearly 3,500 African Americans were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. Lynching during the 19th century in the United States, Britain and colonies, coincided with a period of violence, which denied people participation in white-­‐dominated society on the basis of race or gender after the Emancipation Act of 1833. Today lynching is a felony in all states of the United States, defined by some codes of law as "Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person which results in the death of the person," with a 'mob' being defined as "the assemblage of two or more persons, without color or authority of law, for the premeditated purpose and with the premeditated intent of committing an act of violence upon the person of another." Lynching in the second degree is defined as "Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person and from which death does not result.” To sustain a conviction for lynching, at least some evidence of premeditation must be produced, but "The common intent to do violence" may be formed before or during the assemblage.” Questions to answer on a separate sheet of paper: 1. Define lynching. 2. The reading says that lynching “have often been means used by the politically dominant population to oppress social challengers.” Who have we seen use lynching? Who have been their targets? 3. How might lynching “manipulate or control” a group of people? What might it force them to do/not to do? 4. How many African Americans were lynched between 1882 and 1968? 5. In the United States, how is lynching in the first degree defined? The second degree? 6. Were the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments revolutionary in terms of the freedoms that they granted African Americans?