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african americans were guaranteed political rights and equal protection under the law

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What was the result of the Reconstruction Amendments (the Thirteenth Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments)?

Slavery was abolished in voting rights were extended to all male citizens


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Did all Amendments to the Constitution come in reaction to Supreme Court decisions?

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Several amendments from the 1800s are concerned with the issue of slavery. What changes occurred as a result of these amendments?


What was a result of the thirteenth amendant?

civil war


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What was a result of the fifteenth amendment?

African-Americans were able to vote.


Amendments 13-15 were passed as a direct result of what war?

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Several amendments from the 1800s are concerned with the issue of slavery. What changes occurred as a result of these?


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What war was the thirteenth amendment a result of?

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