During Reconstruction, three amendments to the Constitution were made in an effort to establish equality for black Americans. The Thirteenth Amendment, adopted in 1865, abolishes slavery or ...

Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ratified after the Civil War, which ended in 1865. Advertisement The Thirteenth Amendment is the least cited in case law by the judiciary.

Control of the U.S. Constitution as a “living” and inevitably changing text has passed from the hands of the people to those ...

To be readmitted to the Union, the defeated Confederate states were required to affirm the Constitution's so-called Reconstruction amendments -- the 13th, 14th, and 15th -- which abolished slavery ...

The three amendments of the Reconstruction era radically transformed American life and the role of the federal government. The final section of each amendment grants Congress the power to enforce ...

Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ratified after the Civil War, which ended in 1865. The Thirteenth Amendment is the least cited in case law by the judiciary.

The report of Mr. STEVENS' Committee has the following provision: SEC. 3. Until the 4th day of July, 1870, all persona who voluntarily adhered to the late insurrection, giving it aid and comfort ...

The reconstruction of slaveholding states conquered before the end of the Civil War — Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee — ensured the amendment had the prerequisite number of states to ensure ...

The Fifteenth Amendment was the last of three Reconstruction Amendments. The first two were ratified in 1865 and 1868, respectively. The 15th Amendment was a milestone for civil rights.

Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ratified after the Civil War, which ended in 1865. The Thirteenth Amendment is the least cited in case law by the judiciary.