Evolution of the National Citizenry

By kforgie

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Court ruled that enslaved people were not citizens

  • Civil War Begins

  • Civil War Ends

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolishes slavery, but does not grant full citizenship to those formerly enslaved

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Declared all people born in the United States to be citizens

  • 14th Amendment Passed

    Grants all people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens and have equal protections of the law

  • 15th Amendment

    Granted African American males the right to vote

  • Civil Rights Act of 1875

    Granted access to all citizens to theaters, schools, churches & cemeteries, regardless of color

  • 19th Amendment

    Women finally granted the right to vote