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  1. Q1. Which three amendments are commonly known as the Reconstruction Amendments?
  2. Q2. What did the Thirteenth Amendment accomplish?
  3. Q3. Which amendment first made abolition of slavery part of the U.S. Constitution?
  4. Q4. What exception is included in the Thirteenth Amendment?
  5. Q5. What did the Fourteenth Amendment establish regarding citizenship?
  6. Q6. Which Supreme Court decision was most directly repudiated by the citizenship language of the Fourteenth Amendment?
  7. Q7. Which clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to provide equal legal treatment?
  8. Q8. Which clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects life, liberty, and property from state deprivation without proper legal process?
  9. Q9. Why was the Fourteenth Amendment important for limiting state governments?
  10. Q10. Which amendment is most directly connected to African American male suffrage during Reconstruction?
  11. Q11. Which right was not fully guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment?
  12. Q12. How did Southern states later undermine the Fifteenth Amendment?
  13. Q13. Which amendment gave Congress power to enforce the abolition of slavery through appropriate legislation?
  14. Q14. What do the enforcement clauses of the Reconstruction Amendments allow Congress to do?
  15. Q15. Which Reconstruction Amendment became the foundation for later cases involving school desegregation and equal rights?
  16. Q16. Which amendment most directly changed the constitutional status of formerly enslaved people from noncitizens to citizens?
  17. Q17. Which statement best describes the relationship between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments?
  18. Q18. Why were the Reconstruction Amendments considered a major expansion of federal power?
  19. Q19. Which statement best summarizes the historical significance of the Reconstruction Amendments?