amendments

16th amendment

-legalized federal income tax

-one of final reforms under Wilson

17th amendment

-ratified in 1913

-permitted popular election of senators

18th amendment

-prohibition

-banned alcoholic drinks

-woman’s christian temperance union spearheaded prohibition crusade

-anti-saloon league

-Carry Nation used hatchet to destroy liquor bottles in saloon

-ratified 1919 —> took effect in 1920

19th amendement

-1920

-granted women’s suffrage (women the right to vote)

21st amendment

-repealed the 18th amendment, ending prohibition

13th amendment

-“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States”

-ratified december 1865

-abolished slavery and involuntary servitude across nation

-johnson made states ratify 13th amendment

-first reconstruction amendment

14th amendment

-granted african americans citizenship

-overrode johnson’s veto of a bill to extend Freedman’s bureau + civil rights act of 1866

15th amendment

-outlawed denial of voting rights based on race

-under president ulysess s grant

-last amendment during reconstruction era