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Grade 4 Social Studies · World 9: Rebuilding · Level 72
Three New Amendments
Match the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to their purposes.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 72
- The war was over, and the country had to be put back together. Those years are called Reconstruction, and they started with a huge question: what does freedom really mean?
- The answer went into the Constitution. Three amendments were added in just five years. They were among the biggest changes the Constitution has ever had.
- The 13th Amendment ended slavery in the whole country. Remember the word free.
- The 14th Amendment made people born here citizens, and it promised everyone equal protection of the laws. Remember the word citizen. Southern states, including Georgia, had to accept it to return to Congress.
- The 15th Amendment said no citizen could be denied the vote because of race. Remember the word vote. Black men began to vote, but women of every race still couldn't. That took 50 more years.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- SS4H6.a — Describe the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.