https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/02/18/frederick-douglass-died-feb-just-hours-after-his-public-make-up-with-susan-b-anthony/

https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/inside-happened-charlottesville-protests-49221419

Amendment 13.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Amendment 14.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Amendment 15.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

After reading this week’s materials under Resources in Modules, please answer each of the following questions.

1. Why is it not true to say that Frederick Douglass, before the Civil War, was an African American? (The answer has to do with citizenship.)

2. In what country would we be right now if the Confederate States of America, instead of the United States, had won the Civil War?

3. When did black people in America became citizens of this country?

4. Is slavery entirely illegal in the United States?

5. When did black Americans get the right to vote?

6. When did American women get the right to vote?

7. Why do you think politicians in many states right now are trying to restrict voting rights?

8. Americans who are newly adult belong to the most diverse and open-minded generation in America’s history. How do you think they’ll affect the future in terms of people’s rights?