Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

challenges played significant parts in drafting constitutional amendments and molding civil rights of individuals during the Reconstruction Era. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were recognized as the Civil War Amendments because they were put in place directly following the war. The purpose of them was to ensure the end of slavery and give recently emancipated slaves equal protections and rights. The Thirteenth Amendment was first put in place to abolish slavery and all forms of

The constitution of the United States is composed of 7 articles and 27 amendments. These articles and amendments each have an important role in maintaining the government’s power balanced and limited. Article one, section one, clause one , explains how congress is given the power to make laws. This section is also known as the “vesting clause” no other branch is allowed to have this same power. Section two clause one, explains the ways of the house of representatives. The citizens of each state get

Union victory in 1865, Congress assembled for the challenges the United States would face at the war’s end, particularly the integration of four million emancipated African Americans into the country. The Congressional Reconstruction period generated the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments into the United States Constitution. These amendments extended legal and civil protections to former slaves. These three amendments were foundation of the civil rights movement; because it gave new

from his or her victim. In other cases, much like the one currently in place in the United States, a convicted felon is not only physically imprisoned, but also civilly and mentally incarcerated. Even after a citizen convicted felon is released from prison, his or her civil duties are no longer required by society, duties such as voting, a fundamental part of the American democratic

Many developments in social life and the constitution amounted to a revolution between 1860 and 1877. Some of the major events that took place during this time period were the secession of the southern states, Civil War, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendment, and reconstruction. In 1860, South Carolina declared their causes of secession. South Carolina was the first state to secede, and their main reason was that their powers were restrained by the federal government. They felt they were

The reconstruction act temporarily divides the south into five military districts and called for the creation of the new state governments with black men given the right to vote however, to African Americans the reconstruction meant freedom, self-ownership, family stability, religious liberty, political participation and economic autonomy for blacks. “The laws and constitution would be rewritten to guarantee African-Americans, for the first time in the nation’s history, recognition as citizens and

In Unit 2 lecture on Civil Rights, I learned there are implemented parameters of laws discriminating against specific groups. (Unit 2 Lecture 1 Video) The Equal Protection CClause fought to end public discrimination, prohibiting “states from denying any person the equal protection of the law.” (Gateways to Democracy, p. 150) Courts decide whether laws or actions violate this clause by determining the government’s reason for passing such a law and the connection to the specific classification. There

Mandy Herring Rogers Economics 12 Nov 2014 Century for a Step When the Constitution of the United States was penned, the phrase “We the People of the United States… do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States,” did not actually mean the ‘people’ were establishing the Constitution; rather, the white men of the country were creating the standards for the country. As the country has evolved, voting rights have progressed past borders such as race or gender discrimination. However

Austin Dubble Professor Carol Jenkins Politics of Identity 7 September 2014 Racial Identity in Early American History The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines identity as “the qualities, beliefs, etc., that make a particular person or group different from others” (MWD). In other words, the characteristics which makes a person unique is the identity that they associate with. Black, white, Indian or Latino; gay, lesbian, bisexual or straight; man, woman or transgender; young, middle aged or old; Christian

which gave the power to the states, rather than the federal government. Thus the central government had no power, and some people knew that kind of government was destined to fail. For the government did not have an army to defend the nation, Congress couldn’t levy taxes, and the states were acting like individual countries rather than states in one united country. Therefore, delegates from the thirteen original colonies met in Philadelphia and they introduced the constitution. People were scared that