 13 th Amendment: Prohibited slavery in the United States; ratified December 1865  14 th Amendment: Defined citizenship ( Born or naturalized in the US), provided for loss of congressional representation as repercussion for denying suffrage to ANY male citizen, repudiated Confederate debt, disqualified former officeholders who supported the confederacy from holding state or national office; ratified July 1868 as a condition of readmission  15 th Amendment: Prohibited denying suffrage on the basis of race, color or previous condition of servitude; ratified March 1870, required of VA, MS, TX, and GA for readmission
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