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south Carolina slave code
South Carolina established its slave code in 1712, based on the 1688 English slave code employed in Barbados. It's important because other states started copying south Carolina. -
3rd amendment
Prohibits quartering of soldiers in private homes without the owners consent during peacetime. James Madison and Thomas Jefferson was involved in it. -
6 Georgia slave codes
Savannah was Georgia first Slave Code. Document Citation: “AN ACT For the better Ordering and Governing Negroes and other Slaves in this Province.1. Capital crimes when punished with deaths.
2. When punished by death, or at discretion of the court.
3. Punishment for manslaughter.
4. Punishment of slaves for striking white persons.
5. When the striking a white person justifiable.
6. Punishment for burning or attempting to burn houses in a town. -
13th amendment
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. President Abraham Lincoln approved the Joint Resolution of Congress.The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union. -
civil rights act:
Guaranteed the rights of all citizens to make and enforce contracts and to purchase, sell, or lease property. Passed by the 39th Congress -
14th amendment
The right of citizenship in the Fourteenth Amendment was intended to overturn the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, a decision that had long been considered as one of the Supreme Court’s worst mistakes. Dred Scott argued that he should be granted freedom from the family that claimed ownership over him because he had lived in free states and then had become a citizen of the United States. -
15 admendment
Banded any state to deprive a citizen of his vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Approved by the 40th Congress. -
19th amendment
Guaranteeing women the right to vote, is passed by congress and sent to the states for ratification. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth cady Stanton and Listeria Mott was,involved. It's important because woman gain the right to vote
