AP Amendment Timeline

By dekovianscott

  • 11th Amendment

    States are protected from suits by citizens living in another state or foreigners that do not reside within state borders.

  • 12th Amendment

    Approval of electing a President, and Vice President.

  • 13th Amendment

    To Abolish Slavery.

  • 14th Amendment

    Defines Citizenship.

  • 15th Amendment

    Voting Rights.

  • 16th Amendment

    Federal Income Tax.

  • 17th Amendment

    Popular voting process under which senators are elected.

  • 18th Amendment

    Prohibition of Alcohol.

  • 19th Amendment

    Women has the right of vote.

  • 20th Amendment

    establishes date of term starts for Congress & the President.

  • 21st Amendment

    Details the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. State laws over alcohol are to remain.

  • 22nd Amendment

    Limit the terms that an individual can be elected as president at most two terms.

  • 23rd Amendment

    Reserves the right of citizens residing in the District of Columbia to vote for their own Electors for presidential elections.

  • 24th Amendment

    citizens cannot be denied the suffrage rights for not paying a poll tax or any other taxes.

  • 25th Amendment

    establishes the procedures for a successor of a President.

  • 26th Amendment

    Reserves the right for citizens 18 and older to vote.

  • 27th Amendment

    Denies any laws that vary the salaries of Congress members until the beginning of the next terms of office for Representatives.