The first constitutional change that occurred was the 13th amendment to the constitution, without this change none of the other amendments would have been possible. This was the amendment that made it illegal to hold a person in slavery. This could be called the spark that started the fire, because after this blacks started to receive many rights that they had never had. But these new right didn’t come without many hardships.

The blacks might have been freed from there slavery but that meant they had to go out and fend for themselves. And for a person with no education, no mon

Then came what was one of the biggest revolutionary changes in this period, the 15th amendment, this amendment gave blacks the right to vote. This amendment just like the 13th and 14th was not very liked by a lot of the whites in the south. When blacks showed up at the polls to vote there where met there with poll taxes and literacy tests. (Doc G) Off course sense most blacks where poor they couldn’t afford these taxes, and they where not educated so they couldn’t pass the literacy tests so most blacks in the south really didn’t get the chance to vote. Many blacks argued that they could fight and die for this country so why couldn’t they vote. (Doc C) The blacks did have the legal right but that right was always taken away but whites.

One group that did a lot to try to hold the blacks back was the Ku Klux Klan. This was a group started to re-unite ex-confederate soldiers. (Doc I) But this groups reason for being together eventually evolved into a group that’s main g

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