Reconstruction Amendments

Reconstruction was a period of time after the Civil War (1865-1877) that was supposed to be the rebuilding of America. It was also the process used to readmit all the Confederate states back into the Union. There was controversy, however, on how to go about rebuilding the nation. Abraham Lincoln proposed a lenient plan. After he was assassinated, Andrew Johnson proposed a very similar plan. The Radical Republicans, a group of legislators that were in favor of freedmen’s rights, were opposed to both plans under “Presidential Reconstruction”. They initiated “Congressional Reconstruction”. Because of the conflicting views, there was little cooperation between the Executive and Legislative branches. This lead to many unsuccessful

Reconstruction was like ice cream on a hot day because it is cold and refreshing . Similarly, from 1865 to 1870 the United States passed three Amendments, the 13th, 14th and 15th, to help end slavery. As stated in the 13th amendment,“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 their jurisdiction.” Then, three years later, the government passed the fourteenth amendment which said, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction

Reconstruction was the period after the Civil War. During this period, the U.S faced many challenges such as how to reunite the North and the South and put the Civil War behind us. In addition, the nation needed to address the status of four million freed slaves by granting them citizenship, and protecting their citizenship rights. As years passed, many historians went back and forth of whether or not Congress was a success for the freedmen, or a total blowout. These pieces of evidence concludes that the Congress’ Reconstruction was unfortunately a failure for the freedmen rights.

The Civil War is an important event that took place between the Northern states, the Union, and the Southern states that separated from the Union and from there on the Confederacy was created. This war is more commonly known as the war between states and is classified as the War for Southern independence. Reconstruction refers to the following era that consisted of rebuilding the United States. The Reconstruction era was full of confusion and pain Chapter eight titled “Changes in a Young Nation”, asks the question of whether or not these changes that were brought to the table opened doors of opportunities for all the American citizens. This chapter goes into detail about the expansion of the United States and how it all started.

This Paper will examine the Impact of the 14th and 15th Amendment in America. These Amendments were known as reconstruction amendments, including the 13th amendment in the Unites States. Both amendments took a big role in America, and its people. This paper will also show the people that helped take these amendments into place and also the changes.

The 13th amendment, which was passed in 1865, abolished slavery but did not give blacks equality, the first written law to protect African Americans came about when Congresses passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 proclaimed that all people born in the United States is a citizen, specifically defines the rights of citizenship, and states that it is unlawful to deprive anyone of these rights (Encyclopedia). This act would later be replaced with the 14th amendment, which granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who were emancipated after the Civil War, known today as the “life, liberty, and property” amendment

When Reconstruction began in 1865, a broken America had just finished fighting the Civil War. In all respects, Reconstruction was a time period of

The 15th Amendment is the last of the three “Reconstruction amendments” that passed after the Civil War. This amendment outlaws the states or the federal government from using a citizen's race, color or previous status as a slave for voting qualification. Its basic purpose was to emancipate former slaves who weren’t allowed to vote and weren’t even considered American citizens before. But that was not until the Voting Rights Act in 1965, almost a century later, that the full promise of the 15th Amendment was achieved in all states.

United States was established to abolish aspects of slavery and the involuntary servitude unless it was a punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by the Senate on the 8th of April in 1864 in Congress and the House in 1865. By the 6th of December in 1865, the amendment was already ratified by the mandated number of states and later that month the Secretary of the State proclaimed its adoption. The 13th Amendment was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments established following the American Civil War. Since the period of the American Revolution, the American states were divided into states that continued to practice slavery and those that prohibited the act. However, the aspect of slavery was implicitly allowed in original provisions of the American constitution in the Article 1 that was recognized as the Three-Fifths Compromise. It detailed that every slave country’s enslaved population would be counted into the total population because of the apportioning seats America’s House of Representatives and the taxes among states. The research paper focuses on analyzing the 13th Amendment to the USA Constitution and critical analysis of its effectiveness.

The intent of the fourteenth Amendment was to establish and protect equal rights for all, but most importantly-the former slaves. The fourteenth Amendment granted a unique form of citizenship to the recently freed slaves and their future families, while also containing the framework of rights and protections that would be a part of this new type of citizenship. The fourteenth Amendment redefined the entire idea of citizenship. Before the reform of the 14th Amendment, citizenship under the constitution was in reference to all free white males or person of the original thirteen states and any other states admitted to the union. This parameter granted protection of life, liberty, property and civil rights and immunities from the government. However, especially in the southern democratic colonies, slaves were seen as property, Inferior and non- citizens. They had no rights, neither was there any protection for them under the law. The ratification of the 14th Amendments changed such ideology. To compensate for all the injustices the slaves suffered, this amendment was there to offer some level of hope. The clauses under the Amendment provided some framework of protection for everyone. The equal protection clause requires that states under their jurisdiction; equal protection to everyone, while rejecting any discrimination to anyone. The Due Process Clause prevents local and state

Meanwhile, the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865 by Congress. This amendment officially ended slavery by saying, “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 their jurisdiction” (13th Amendment). It took eight months after the Civil War to finally add this to the

Ratified in 1865, the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution formalized this result in U.S. law, abolishing slavery throughout the country and every territory subject to its jurisdiction.

The Reconstruction Era is a time in the United States where they were breaking off slavery after the Civil War. During this Era they created three new amendments and put them in the the Constitution. These amendments were the 13th, 14th, and the 15th. The whole purpose for these amendments were to protect black people, and to outlaw slavery across the nation. What i’m gonna be explaining is how the Reconstruction Era came up with these amendments and why they were made.

On December 6, 1865 the 13th amendment was introduced to the U. S Constitution. This amendment allegedly proclaimed to abolish slavery. Yet, the interpretation of the 13th amendment can be deceptive and unclear. The amendment states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment

In 1865, the 13th amendment was passed by congress. Which officially abolished slavery in the United States. The 13th amendment  states, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have duly convicted, shall  exist within the United States’ but yet the amendment still allowed slavery to continue,” expect as a