Bundle of 2 - Amendments to the U.S. Constitution - 1 Tutorial & 2 PP

This product is a bundle of 3 on the Amendments to the Constitution and their impact on the United States. Included in the bundle is 1 tutorial; Constitutional Amendments: The Expansion of Democracy and 2 stand-alone power point presentations; The Reconstruction Amendments and The Voting Amendments. Each of the pages and slides are editable so you may adjust the presentation to meet your individual needs.

There is a total of 16-pages in the tutorial and 62 slides in the two power point presentations. The tutorial accompanies the Florida Students educational resources tutorial: Constitutional Amendments: The Expansion of Democracy, Florida Benchmark Standard: SS.7.C.3.7 and the power point presentation support the benchmark as well.

Tutorial #1 – Constitutional Amendments: The Expansion of Democracy - Student Study Guide & Answer Key. This tutorial contains an 8-page Guided Notes Activity Worksheet and an 8-page Teacher’s Answer Key.

In this tutorial the student will be required to analyze the impact of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments on participation of minority groups in the American political process.

Note the following Link:

www.floridastudents.org/PreviewResource/StudentResource/119044

If you do not have a computer for each student, you can present the tutorial class activity completing each activity as you progress through the tutorial. If you have a smartboard, students can complete the activity at their seat, individually or with partners, and then come to the smartboard to present the answer. If you have computers or a laptop for each student, students can complete the tutorial and add answers as they progress through the tutorial at their own pace. Either way, students can then use the worksheet as a study guide for a quiz or the End of Course Exam.

Power Point #1 – is entitled, The Reconstruction Amendments and contains 27 editable slides.

The Reconstruction Amendments are the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution, passed between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War. This group of Amendments are sometimes referred to as the Civil War Amendments.

Amendments were intended to restructure the United States from a country that was "half slave and half free" (Abraham Lincoln) to one in which the constitutionally guaranteed "blessings of liberty" would be extended to the entire populace, including the former slaves and their descendants.

The laws that came out of these amendments were not popular in the south and the Southern states often circumvented these laws or just did not implement them, beginning a Civil Rights struggle that lasted for more than 100 years in the United States.

Overview (2)

Erosion of Federal Law

Supreme Court Decisions

Who Was Jim Crow?

13th Amendment

Slaves Legal Status?

Black Code Laws

14th Amendment

Forced Ratification

Important Clauses

Apportionment

Due Process Clause

Equal Protection Clause

Civil & Voting Rights

15th Amendment

The Black Voter

Difficult Ratification

Laws to Disfranchise

Voter Suppression

Supreme Court Ruling

Southern Response

19th Amendment

Other Laws Passed

End of Presentation

Power Point #2 – is entitled, The Voting Amendments and contains 35 editable slides.

Amendment 13 and 14 are important as background material for Amendment 15. So the presentation covers Amendments 13, 14 15, 19, 24 and 26. I have also included a slide on the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which clarifies the voting status of Native Americans.

Included are three slides of review questions for the students to consider regarding voting and what they would do regarding the Amendments. 

The presentation is best for the upper middle school and high school student and covers the following:

Introduction
The Civil War Amendments
13th Amendment
13th Amendment: Background
Slaves Legal Status?
Black Code Laws
14th Amendment
14th Amendment: Background
Citizenship Clause 
Privileges & Immunities Clause
Due Process Clause
Equal Protection Clause
15th Amendment
15th Amendment: Background
Insurgent Groups
Laws to Disfranchise 
Voter Suppression
Supreme Court Rulings
Southern States Response
19th Amendment
19th Amendment: Background
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Women Gain Right to Vote
24th Amendment
24th Amendment: Background
26th Amendment 
26th Amendment: Background
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Questions for Review
Who Would You Target?
Compulsory Voting?
End of Presentation

This is one of many bundled presentations I have in my store under the heading …Tutorials and Voting & Elections.