Descriptions for each question please. Worth 25 points. 1. Briefly explain the 13th amendment
2. Briefly explain the 14th amendment
3. Briefly explain the 15th amendment
4. What was sharecropping and how was it similar to slavery?
5. What were the "Black codes" ?
6. What were poll taxes?
7. What were literacy tests?
8. What was the "Grandfather Clause" ?

1.  13th amendment

This amendment freed all slaves without compensation to the slaveowners. It legally forbade slavery in the United States.

2.  14th Amendment

This amendment declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were entitled equal rights regardless of their race, and that their rights were protected at both the state and national levels.

3.  15th Amendment

citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude

4.  Southern economy were in disorder, cause conflict Sharecropper were slaves Poor people worked in exchange for food and life mostly in South.

5.  Defined what it meant to be black

-Prevented blacks from voting/holding office etc

-Prevented blacks from serving in state militias

-Prohibited interracial marriage between whites and blacks

-Mandated and regulated labor contracts between whites and free blacks

6.  A requirement that citizens pay a tax in order to register to vote

7.  A requirement that citizens pass a literacy test in order to register to vote

8.  A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867.

Explanation:

the court ruled that a state law that banned abortions (except to save the life of the mother) was unconstitutional

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the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.