Reconstruction Era amendments
13th Reconstruction Era amendments:
The United States Constitution was originally amended during the Reconstruction era with the 13th Amendment.
- Changes made: The debate over whether slavery was legal in the United States was resolved once the amendment was approved on December 6, 1865.
- Changes needed: When someone is forced to work in order to pay off debts, it is referred to as involuntary servitude or peonage which needed to be abolished in this amendment.
14th Reconstruction Era amendments:
African Americans were given citizenship rights and a guarantee that "equal protection of the laws" would be upheld by the federal government via the 14th Amendment (1868).
- Changes made: It provided "equal protection of the laws" to all citizens and granted citizenship to anybody born or naturalised in the US, including freed slaves.
- Changes needed: The "Reconstruction Amendment" prohibits states from depriving anybody of their "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law,"
15th Reconstruction Era amendments:
- Changes made: The federal and state governments are forbidden under the Fifteenth Amendment from denying a citizen the right to vote on the grounds of that citizen's "race, colour, or prior condition of servitude."
- Changes needed: After the Civil War, the 15th Amendment, which aimed to safeguard African American men's ability to vote, was ratified into the U.S. Constitution in 1870.
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