13th Amendment

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13th Amendment

• Proposed January 31, 1865
• Ratification completed December 6, 1865
• Officially abolished slavery
• Continues to prohibit slavery today

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14th Amendment

• Proposed June 13th, 1866
• Officially ratified July 28, 1868
• Requires state to provide equal
• protection to all citizens
• Used to abolish segregation

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15th Amendment

• Officially ratified February 3, 1870
• United States government cannot prevent a citizen
  from voting race,
• color, or prior servitude
• Designed to enfranchise slaves

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Leaders of Reconstruction

• Abraham Lincoln
• tried to quickly
• unite the country
• as President

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Leaders of Reconstruction

• Congressmen Thaddeus Stevens and
• Senator Charles Sumner led the
• Radical Republicans
• President Johnson assumed presidency after
  Lincoln was assassinated

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Reconstruction

• Civil and voting rights
• for all men
• 1867- 1st time black men vote
• 1500 African-Americans held office
• in the South

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Reconstruction

• Hostilies continued during this period
• from 1865-1877
• Southern states were readmitted to
• the Union