TThe fighting over slavery before, during, and after the Civil War is what caused these Amendments to com into effect.
The 13th Amendment allowed the abolition of slavery. Since the 13th amendment got rid of the South's only way of labour to work on their fields, the South didn't particularly like this amendment. The South remained largely agricultural during, and after, Reconstruction, with many mired in a cycle of perpetual poverty through a system known as sharecropping, in which the poor grew crops on another's land in exchange for wages paid after the harvest. The 14th Amendment allowed civil rights in the states. The Southerners were forced to ratify this amendment so they could regain representation in congress. This angered the South. This amendment was an essential part of congress's own Reconstruction in 1866. The 15th Amendment was the creation of black suffrage. Even though the 15th amendment allowed the African-Americans to vote and created black suffrage, the South was the one place that had the most use of various discriminatory practices to prevent the African-Americans from exercising their rights to vote. Fulfilling the spirit of the Amendment, congress eventually authorized the Voting Rights Act of 1965, during the height of the Civil Rights movement. |
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves.