Question

1. match the statements with the constitutional amendments. answers may be used more than once.

\all persons born or naturalized in the united states, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the united
\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
ous condition of servitude.\
the amendment nullified the scott decision by taking the power to define citizenship out of the individual states control

o state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the united states.
ratified in 1869, the amendment was written specifically to prevent states from limiting black suffrage.

Explanation:

• The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) defines citizenship as "All persons born or naturalized in the United States...", nullified the Dred Scott decision (which said Black people could not be citizens), and has the clause “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States”.
• The Fifteenth Amendment (ratified 1870, proposed 1869) states “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”.

Answer:

• “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States”: Fourteenth Amendment.
• “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 servitude]”: Fifteenth Amendment.
• “The amendment nullified the Scott decision by taking the power to define citizenship out of the individual states’ control”: Fourteenth Amendment.
• “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States”: Fourteenth Amendment.
• “Ratified in 1869, the amendment was written specifically to prevent states from limiting Black suffrage”: Fifteenth Amendment.