13th amendment- abolished slavery, and involuntary solitude, except as punishment for crime.
14th amendment- addresses citizenship rights and equal protection laws.
15th amendment- prohibits the federal and state governments from denying any citizen the right to vote.
Emancipation Proclamation: declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." allowed Blackmen to join the Union army. This put the idea that the war was for freedom into many people's hearts.
problems with reconstruction: How to deal with the states as they rejoined the Union,
how Southern whites should be treated. How to deal with the freed slaves.
14th amendment- addresses citizenship rights and equal protection laws.
15th amendment- prohibits the federal and state governments from denying any citizen the right to vote.
Emancipation Proclamation: declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." allowed Blackmen to join the Union army. This put the idea that the war was for freedom into many people's hearts.
problems with reconstruction: How to deal with the states as they rejoined the Union,
how Southern whites should be treated. How to deal with the freed slaves.