"Write in the SAQ boxes your responses to the following Short Answer Question. Remember the rubric and give detail and examples to your responses
SAQ: Observing the political documents below, how did the following issues concerning
southern African Americans contribute to further political tension/division in the United
States:
13th Amendment (1865)
Section 1. 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 the jurisdiction.
14th Amendment (1868)
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States 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
15th Amendment (1870)
Section 1. The night 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.
A. Freedmen/Sharecropping
B. Segregation
C. Voting Rights