Amendment timeline

  • 4th amendment

    Unreasonable search and seizure.
  • 1st amendment

    Freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly
  • 5th amendment

    Due process, Grand jury, double jeopardy, self-incrimination
  • 9th amendment

    Rights that are not listed in the first 8 amendments
  • 2nd amendment

    Right to bare arms.
  • 10th amendment

    Powers not delegated to the U.S. by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
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    Amendment Timeline

  • 13th amendment

    Abolished slavery in the U.S.
  • 14th amendment

    Granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the civil war.
  • 15th amendment

    Right of male citizens to vote without being discriminated by their race, color
  • 17th amendment

    Allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
  • 19th amendment

    Women’s suffrage
  • 26th amendment

    “Old enough to fight, old enough to vote.” Lowered the legal voting age to 18.