The three Reconstruction amendments were major elements in this era. They provided clear definitions to parts of the Constitution in regards to citizenship, suffrage, and slavery. At the same time, they helped mend a broken nation and bring it back together by facilitating readmission of ex-confederate states back into the Union upon ratification. After Lincoln’’s assassination, Johnson required all ex-confederate states to ratify the 13th Amendment, which freed the slaves. Congress approved it in 1865 and it was ratified that same year in December. The major issue of the Civil War had now been conquered and after hundreds of years of legalized slavery, its existence ceased in the U.S. Congress a

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