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Amending the Constitution and Expanding Rights Over Time

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-UT-SS

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Investigate the formal amendment process outlined in Article V and examine how constitutional amendments extended rights to previously excluded groups.

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  1. The Article V Amendment Process: Proposal and RatificationUp next
  2. Why Amend the Constitution? A Living Framework for ChangeNot started yet
  3. The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing EnslavementYou are here
  4. The Fourteenth Amendment: Birthright Citizenship and Equal ProtectionNot started yet
  5. The Fifteenth Amendment: Voting Rights for Black MenNot started yet
  6. The Nineteenth Amendment: Women's Suffrage TriumphNot started yet
  7. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and Native Voting RightsNot started yet
  8. The Twenty-Fourth Amendment: Eliminating Poll TaxesNot started yet
  9. The Twenty-Sixth Amendment: Lowering the Voting Age to 18Not started yet
  10. Evaluating How the Constitution Expanded 'We the People'Not started yet
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us-ut5.3.5Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Investigate how constitutional amendments are passed, and provide examples of how amendments to the Constitution have extended rights to groups originally denied protection under the Constitution (for example, women, enslaved people, immigrants, Black Americans, Native Americans).