Amendment 15:

African American men get the right to vote.

The 15th amendment protects the rights of Americans to vote in elections to elect their leaders. Specifically, it confirms the right to vote and lists conditions that are illegal to deny another person the right to vote. Any American cannot be denied the right to vote, based on race, color or being a former slave.

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Amendment 18

Prohibition: Alcohol was illegal. 

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Amendment 19

The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.

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Amendment 21

    Alcohol was legal again. 

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Amendment 22

The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution was an addition to the United States Constitution that put a limit on how many times a person could be elected to be President. A person is limited to eight (and possibly ten) years as president. Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947. It was ratified on February 27, 1951.

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Amendment 23

The 23rd amendment gives residents of Washington DC the right to vote for representatives in the Electoral College. Since DC is not a state, its residents were not allowed to vote for President as well as elected voting representative to Congress.

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Amendment 24

The 24th amendment was important to the Civil Rights Movement as it ended mandatory poll taxes that prevented many African Americans.  Poll taxes, combined with grandfather clauses and intimidation, effectively prevented African Americans from having any sort of political power, especially in the South.

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Amendment 26

The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

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