Amendments that involve US citizenship involvement

Question 1

What does the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee?

Answer 1

Citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S., and protection from states denying due process or equal protection under the law.

Question 2

Which amendment grants citizenship to those born or naturalized in the United States?

Answer 2

The Fourteenth Amendment.

Question 3

What does the Fifteenth Amendment state?

Answer 3

It prohibits the federal and state governments from denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Question 4

Why wasn’t the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment fully realized for nearly a century?

Answer 4

Southern states used poll taxes, literacy tests, and other tactics to disenfranchise African American voters.

Question 6

What law helped enforce the Fifteenth Amendment’s promise?

Answer 6

The Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Question 7

What does the Nineteenth Amendment guarantee?

Answer 7

The right to vote cannot be denied based on sex, granting American women the right to vote. 1920

Question 8

What does the Twenty-Sixth Amendment do?

Answer 8

It grants the right to vote to American citizens aged 18 and older.