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13th amendment Ans✓✓✓ abolished slavery and involuntary servitude,
except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the
Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The
amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December
6, 1865. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward
proclaimed its adoption. It was the first of the three Reconstruction
Amendments adopted following the American Civil War.
14th amendment 1869 Ans✓✓✓ Granted citizenship to all persons born
or naturalized in the US including former slaves recently freed. It also
forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property without
due process of law" and includes the now famous equal protection
clause
15th amendment Ans✓✓✓ Granted African American men the right to
vote
19th amendment Ans✓✓✓ Granted women the right to vote
3 legged stool Ans✓✓✓ Personal savings, pension(a regular payment
made during a person's retirement from an investment fund to which that
person or their employer has contributed during their working life.)and
social security
, Alleviate Ans✓✓✓ Relies on programs that ease the suffering of the
poor. Public assistance
Amnesty Ans✓✓✓ A general pardon for offenses, especially political
offenses, against government, often granted before any trial or
conviction
Arizonas support our law enforcement and safe neighbors act SB 1070
Ans✓✓✓ Requires immigrants to carry their alien registration
documents at all times. Failure to carry immigrant documents would
now be a crime. It also targets those who hire those without legal status
or knowingly transport them
Ballot initiative Ans✓✓✓ Process that allows citizens to draft
legislation, place it on a ballot and submit it to the voters to decide
instead of being adopted by a state legislature
Bracero program Ans✓✓✓ The bracero program (named for the
Spanish term bracero, meaning "manual laborer" ("one who works using
his arms") was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on
August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor
Agreement with Mexico. The agreement guaranteed basic humane rights
(sanitation, adequate shelter and food), and a minimum wage pay of 30
cents an hour; it also enabled the importation of temporary contract
laborers from Mexico to the United States as a momentary war-related
clause to supply workers during the early phases of World War II.[1]
answers
13th amendment Ans✓✓✓ abolished slavery and involuntary servitude,
except as punishment for a crime. In Congress, it was passed by the
Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865. The
amendment was ratified by the required number of states on December
6, 1865. On December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward
proclaimed its adoption. It was the first of the three Reconstruction
Amendments adopted following the American Civil War.
14th amendment 1869 Ans✓✓✓ Granted citizenship to all persons born
or naturalized in the US including former slaves recently freed. It also
forbids states from denying any person "life, liberty or property without
due process of law" and includes the now famous equal protection
clause
15th amendment Ans✓✓✓ Granted African American men the right to
vote
19th amendment Ans✓✓✓ Granted women the right to vote
3 legged stool Ans✓✓✓ Personal savings, pension(a regular payment
made during a person's retirement from an investment fund to which that
person or their employer has contributed during their working life.)and
social security
, Alleviate Ans✓✓✓ Relies on programs that ease the suffering of the
poor. Public assistance
Amnesty Ans✓✓✓ A general pardon for offenses, especially political
offenses, against government, often granted before any trial or
conviction
Arizonas support our law enforcement and safe neighbors act SB 1070
Ans✓✓✓ Requires immigrants to carry their alien registration
documents at all times. Failure to carry immigrant documents would
now be a crime. It also targets those who hire those without legal status
or knowingly transport them
Ballot initiative Ans✓✓✓ Process that allows citizens to draft
legislation, place it on a ballot and submit it to the voters to decide
instead of being adopted by a state legislature
Bracero program Ans✓✓✓ The bracero program (named for the
Spanish term bracero, meaning "manual laborer" ("one who works using
his arms") was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated on
August 4, 1942, when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor
Agreement with Mexico. The agreement guaranteed basic humane rights
(sanitation, adequate shelter and food), and a minimum wage pay of 30
cents an hour; it also enabled the importation of temporary contract
laborers from Mexico to the United States as a momentary war-related
clause to supply workers during the early phases of World War II.[1]
