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    13th14th‚ and 15th Amendments The thirteenth amendment formally abolished the institution of slavery‚ and gave congress the power to enforce it. The thirteenth amendment was necessary because even though the Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves in the south to be freed‚ the southern states refused to free them‚ and the amendment encompassed the entire U.S. and it’s territories. Overall‚ I feel the amendment was a success‚ because it gave the government the ability to enforce it as a law

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    Define and discuss the purpose of the 14th and 15th Amendments? How successful were these Amendments? Specifically‚ address the safety of African Americans during the reconstruction? How did the Compromise of 1877 affect the South for future decades? Volume I‚ Chapter 12‚ pages 299-323 & Chapter 13‚ pages 324 -345 The Fourteenth Amendment changed the Constitution by compelling states to accept their residents as citizens and to guarantee that their rights as citizens would be safeguarded

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    of the 14th and 15th amendments African Americans had almost no rights‚ and not to long before the 14th and 15 amendments were passed they were slaves. Even after the African American’s were freed they still had almost no rights‚ and in the south almost nobody recognized the few rights that African Americans did have. It was not until the 14th and 15th amendments were passed that African Americans started getting basic rights that all people should have. Before the 14th and 15ty amendments were passed

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    Through the years of American history there’s been many different amendments past through the government that have given‚ taken‚ or altered the rights of all citations. While during the era of reconstruction was happening‚ there was 3 important amendments passed through congress theses being the 13th14th‚ and 15th amendments. The 14th amendment had 5 sections within the article covering many different parts of rights of congressmen‚ state repetions‚ and people within them. Eric Foner who write

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    with both the 13th and 15th amendment. In terms of the 13th‚ the case of Dred Scott v. Stanford comes to mind. We see the court rule and state that Americans of African descent were not American citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court. Along with that we also again see racial segregation upheld in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson‚ as I talked about previously. Although there were no cases that directly overturned the Dred Scott case or the Plessy case‚ the fourteenth amendment paved way for

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    The 13th14th and 15th Amendments‚ as well as the doctrine of incorporation‚ promised the citizens of the United States‚ which now included former slaves‚ equal protection under the law. However‚ the true outcome of the Constitutional amendments that were produced during the Civil War Era had limited influence on producing equality‚ due to the lack of federal enforcement of the Amendments to the states. The 13th Amendment states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude‚ except as a punishment

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    thirteen amendments. The Supreme Court’s decision in the Civil Rights Cases (1883) suggested that section 2 gave Congress the authority to outlaw “badges and incidents” of slavery as well as the institution itself. Thus it is not surprising that for much of the twentieth century civil rights litigation focused almost entirely on section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment‚ which was adopted in 1868. In response to those issues Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution‚ this amendment declared

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    14th Amendment: After the 13th amendment was ratified‚ all the slaves were set free from their masters. But as time passed‚ the white people still treated them like a minority and in many ways it was as if they were still slaves. Yes‚ they were free to go wherever they wanted without being punished‚ but they were still not able to do many of the things that white people did. It was as if they had never really been freed. The Emancipated slaves suffered through terrible injustices and faced major

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    The 14th Amendment 157 years ago‚ when slavery was an on-going issue‚ an African-American slave came upon the notion that he should be considered a freed man. His reason for feeling such way was simple. He had been living in Illinois for an extended period of time. Illinois at the time was a free state‚ meaning that it had prohibited slavery. With the help of a group of people who opposed slavery‚ he set out to try and become a freed man. This man’s case was presented to the Supreme Court March

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    13TH AMENDMENT The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude‚ except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8‚ 1864‚ by the House on January 31‚ 1865‚ and adopted on December 6‚ 1865. On December 18‚ 1865‚ Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed its adoption. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War. Slavery had been tacitly protected in the original

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