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Constitutional Amendments and the Expansion of Rights

9th Grade · Social Studies · US-OR-SS

10 lessons

Goal

Analyze how constitutional amendments have restructured power, protected civil liberties, expanded suffrage, and transformed American national order.

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  1. The Amendment Process: Article V Pathways and High ThresholdsUp next
  2. The Bill of Rights: Protecting Fundamental Freedoms and Due ProcessNot started yet
  3. The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Enslavement and Penal ExceptionsNot started yet
  4. The Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship, Due Process, and Equal ProtectionNot started yet
  5. The Incorporation Doctrine: Applying the Bill of Rights to StatesNot started yet
  6. The Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments: Expanding Voting RightsNot started yet
  7. Progressive Era Amendments: Income Tax, Senators, Prohibition, and RepealNot started yet
  8. The Twenty-Fourth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments: Dismantling Electoral BarriersNot started yet
  9. Executive Governance Amendments: The 12th, 20th, 22nd, and 25thYou are here
  10. Unratified Amendments and Ongoing Constitutional DebatesNot started yet
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Learning standards covered

us-orHS.1Oregon Social Studies Standards · All ages

Analyze the impact of constitutional amendments on groups, individuals, institutions, national order.

us-orHS.4Oregon Social Studies Standards · All ages

Examine institutions, functions and processes of United States government.

us-orHS.9Oregon Social Studies Standards · All ages

Examine and evaluate documents related to the Constitution and Supreme Court decisions (such as Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, Anti-Federalist Papers, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Constitutional amendments).