Reconstruction Amendments!

The reconstruction amendments are often referred to as Civil War amendments. These
are amendments that were created and ratified in the five years after the Civil War,
meaning between 1865 and 1870. The necessity of the reconstruction amendments
was to implement the important changes that were necessary in order to begin to reform
and rebuild the United States to the envisioned status that was desired.

The Civil War amendments are the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments that
are found in the U.S. Constitution. These amendments were proposed and placed in the
Constitution in order to give rights and protection to individuals who do not have these
rights before; this essentially gave legal rights to the slaves who were set free during
this time, and promised not to discriminate on any other groups of individuals.

The thirteenth amendment was the amendment that legally abolished slavery in the
United States. This was an important step in the unification of the North and South, as
well as the progressive movement towards other legal actions.

The fourteenth amendment, yet another of the reconstruction amendments, was the one
that helped to redefine what was considered citizenship in the United States. This is
also where the liberties and the rights of individuals were extended and defined a bit
more, in order to encompass the broadening population of U.S. Citizens.

The fifteenth amendment was the final installation of the Civil War amendments; this
amendment gave people, only males at this time, the right to vote regardless of race,
color, or previous status in the United States. These reconstruction amendments helped
to move the United States into a more unified and progressive nation.
On the back, write a journal of a freedman on three different dates: right after the 13th
amendment, 14th amendment and 15th amendment were passed.