Lesson 14: Amendments After the Bill of Rights

     After the Bill of Rights was established, further amendments were added to the ocnstitution.  Each one dealing with unique circumstances.  Some of these unique circumstances included slavery, which the Thirteenth Amendment abolished in 1865, the Nineteenth Amendment which gave women the right to vote in political matters, and the Twenty-Second Amendment which limited the president to only two terms in office.
     These amendments addressed some ipmortant areas for America.  Had these areas not been amended, slaves may not have been freed and made citizens of the United States and women would not have voting privileges extended to them.  These two amendments have a very important affect in America today.  Now both women and African-Americans can work as citizens on almost any job in the United States.