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The 13th amendment officially outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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The 14th amendment was considered one of the reconstruction amendments. It includes three clauses : the citizenship, due process, and equal protection.
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The 15th amendment provents each government of the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote.
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There was to be racial segregation in public but in returm must be equal.
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The 19th amendment prohibits to have any citizen denied the right to vote based on sex.
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In the armed forces, segregation was abolished.
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It was declared that it was unconstitutional to have an all white and all colored school.
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It was started after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus and was arrested. Which caused African Americans to not take the bus as transportation to prove their point.
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Rosa Parks was confronted my a white male and was asked to move so he could sit even though she was sitting in her correct seat. She refused to move and was arrested for this act.
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Eisenhower signed this act to give voting privelages to the colored.
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The 24th amendment prohibited both congress and the state from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax(or other taxes).
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Major forms of discrimination were outlawed against African Americans and women.
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Discrimination of certain voting practices were responsible for the spread of disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States.
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Regardless of color, race,nationa orgin, creed it provided equal and housing opportunities.
