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This was a important case that the supreme ruled on because it caused the eleventh amendment t be ratified.
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The Eleventh Amendment says that U.S. courts can't hear cases against a state if the state is sued by a citizen who lives in another state or country.
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Before the 12 Amendment, presidential electors voted for 2 people for president and vice president. The person with the most number of votes would become president. For the Election of 1800, both Jefferson and his running mate received the same amount of votes, causing the House of Representatives to vote to break the tie.
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The Twelfth Amendment creates separate Electoral college votes for the president and vice president.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a Speech made by President Abe Lincoln that freed slaves In the US except for the border states. This was extremely inspirational for the 13th amendment.
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The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
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After the Civic War, some southern states started passing laws that restricted the rights of slaves.
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The fourteenth amendment Granted citizenship to everyone born in the U.S.
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The fifteenth Amendment granted African american men the right to vote.
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The Republicans wanted all the power in the North and the South. The 15th Amendment gave blacks the right to vote.
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Reduced tariff rates but forced an unapportioned direct tax.
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Allowed congress to put income tax on anything.
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Several state legislatures deadlocked over the election of senators. This caused the 17th amendment to be ratified because the 17th amendment. let people vote for there senators instead of sate legislators.
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Gave people the right to vote for there senators instead of there state legislators.
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During World War I, in order to preserve wheat, corn, rye and barley used by distillers and brewers for the war effort.
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The eighteenth amendment made the sale of alcohol illegal.
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The fight to win the right to vote for women lasted decade. It took activists 100 years to win the right.
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The nineteenth amendment gave women the right to vote.
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Before the 20th amendment, Presidents and congressmen served for a longer period of time after the election. New presidents weren't inaugurated til March 4, allowing last minute pardons and acts of political sabotage.
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The twentieth amendment sets the dates at which federal United States government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies.
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Prohibition failed to enforce sobriety and costed billions of dollars, and rapidly lost support in the early 1930s.
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The 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment and made it legal to buy and sell alcohol.
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The 22nd amendment limits the presidential terms to two years.
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Roosevelt's long presidential term created unease about the possibility of presidential tyranny.
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For the first time ever residents of the District of Columbia were able cast their ballots in a presidential election, after the 23rd amendment was passed.
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the 23rd amendment gives residents of Washington DC the right to vote for representatives in the Electoral College
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Poll taxes were enforced in the southern states to try to keep black people from voting.
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The 24th amendment outlawed poll taxes and allowed all U.S. citizens to vote.
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Before the 25th Amendment was ratified, if the vice president died, resigned, or was removed from office, the seat remained vacant until the next election
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The 25th amendment says that if a president is unable to do their job the vise president becomes president.
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Many thought, that those old enough to be drafted for military service, should be allowed to vote.
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The 19th amendment lower the voting age to 18.
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Congress sets its own salary by voting for or against pay raises, but the 27th amendment prevents any salary changes until after the next election
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the 27th amendment prohibits a law being passed to raise the salary.
