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- Amendment XXIV
- poll tax outlawed
- "3/5 Compromise" impact
- It allowed southern states to count slaves toward their population, enen tough they considered slaves as property, not people. - More slaves=More members in the House=More inflence to maintain slavery's legal status.
- Amendment XVIII
- Alcohol illegal
- Separate but not equal.
- Fergusson won - 7-1. This ruling established "separate but equal" as justification for segregation.
- Amendment XVI
- Income tax allowed
- Dred Scott: arguements against him
- The Supreme Court said the slaves were property, and could be taken anywhere their maters want without gaing freedom.
- Amendment Ratification Options
- Ratified by the state legislators or 3/4(38) of the states OR Ratified by conventions held in 3/4(38) of the states
- Amendment XII
- If no candidates wins a majority of electoral votes, the House of Reps selects the president from among the top 3 candidates
- Plessy vs. Fergusson: arguements against plessy
- Te train cars were egual even though they were separated, and had an experience. they said they woul arrest a white man and a black car.
- Civil War
- Fouth between the north and the south, in large part over issue of slavery. - Resulted in a 600,000 death toll. - The North's victory allowed for the passage of the 13th amendment which outlawed slavery.
- Amendment XV
- Black men given right to vote
- Amendment XXII
- Two term limit for president
- Amendment XX
- Presidential term begins Jan 20th
- Amendment XXI
- alcohol legal again
- Amendment XIX
- Women can vote
- Amendment XXVI
- 18 years oldcan vote
- Amendment XI
- retrictions of federal lawsuits
- Dred Scott: Outcome and Impact
- The constitution was interpreted to allow slavery. Pro-slavery people were happy, and anit-slavery people were angry
- Amendment XIV
- No state can den citizens' rights.
- Amendment XXV
- presidential succession clearly defined
- Amendment XVII
- Senators directly elected by citizens
- Reasons for allowing slavery
- Southern States would never have ratified a costitution that outlawed slavery. - Southern states feared that without slave labor their farming economy would collapse.
- Dred Scott: Reasons for Lawsuit
- Scott argued that when he was in Illinois and Wicsonsi, he should have been freed because slavery was illegal there.
- Amendment Proposal Options
- Proposed by COngress by a 2/3 vote in both houses OR Proposed at a national convention called by congress when requested by 2/3(34) of the state legislators.
- Amendment XXIII
- DC gets 3 electoral votes
- Amendment XXVII
- Restrictions on Congressional pay raises
- Plessy vs. Fergusson: Reason for lawsuit
- Homer wanted to challange th Louisiana law that said segregation was legal.