Grant, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed in order to help deal with the many problems during the reconstruction era; such as the readmission of states into the Union, slavery and the many injustices to the black population, and instituting a stable government that would represent the people correctly. ... The Fourteenth Amendment was perhaps one of the most important amendments in our constitution. ... The Fourteenth Amendment was helpful in shinning some light on this situation and making it easier to decide who gets office and how they"re going to obtain it. ... For the many problems...

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The 14th amendment of the United States Constitution was initially based on the Civil Rights Act of 1866. ... Still there are many cases across the country that deal with the inequality of job preferences and opportunities of women and minorities. One of the major cases is the fact that there has been no female or minority president since the 14th amendment was enacted nearly 40 years ago. ... There is no doubt that this policy does not hold up to what the constitution states in the 14th amendment. ... Today, there are still issues on whether certain policies hold up to what the constitutio...

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During and After Reconstruction, there were many arguments over the civil rights of African Americans. ... After the Civil War, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments were added to the Constitution. The thirteenth amendment freed Africans from slavery. ... During and after Reconstruction, there were laws made that limited the civil liberties of African Americans. ... Most freedmen did not know how to write and read and therefore could not pass the tests. ...

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How should we treat the Southerners? ... Reconstruction was a time period in America which consisted of many accomplishments, such as Amendments that gave people rights, and acts that gave education. Though, from a US History student's perspective, the resulting outcome of the Reconstruction has been labeled as a limited success, because there are still racial conflicts today. During the process of Reconstruction, the nation faced social issues on how to handle the now freed African Americans. ... Constitution on March 30, 1870, guaranteed African American men the right to vote, saying t...

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There have been many events and processes in American society that diverted public and political attention from the plight of African-Americans in the post war period during the Reconstruction. ... I'll also explain how white northerners stopped caring about Reconstruction and black civil rights. ... Grant becomes president while the Fifteenth Amendment goes into effect. ... Since the US Constitution forbade outright racial discrimination, the Southern states required that blacks read or interpret any section of the Constitution knowing most of them didn't know how to read. ......

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President Lincoln, President Johnson and Congress had differing ideas on how to reconstruct the United States. ... The Southern would have to approve the Thirteenth Amendment. ... The three acts established military control over the former Confederate States by dividing them into five military districts, established who could run for office and who could vote, and how to regulate the ratification of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments and the Constitution. ... Thieves, who had possession of the state government, thoroughly gutted the state tre...

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The standards that were Laissez-faire set, or stuck down rather, by President Andrew Johnson, were unsatisfactory to the Northerners causing them to vote into congress many radical republicans. These Senators and representatives would bring about new laws that would change how the South was rehabilitated, and how the black population would be treated during the following years. ... Congress also declared that for states to seek remittance into the South, they needed to ratify the fourteenth Amendment in their state constitutions, and give suffrage to blacks. ... The Senate did not want to proc...

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Southern Planter Aristocrats were frustrated with how their government was being ran, specifically the recent influx of Northern dominated influence in the House, and the views of President Lincoln. ... The Southern states felt that their State's rights were not being upheld properly by the constitution, and therefore had grounds to secede from the Union. ... Many southern states even went as far as to pass what was known as the Black Codes, used to enforce the white aristocracy in the South. ... (Patenburg 1) While Black citizens were given there freedom by the 13th Amendment, and th...

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There were many arguments between the North on the South about slavery and about ending it. ... The language of the Declaration of Independence, and the great talks of equality, also helped place slavery in an ethically precarious position in the minds of many. ... In December 1865, Congress ratified the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery. ... Maine, Mississippi, Alabama and Missouri, and because of the civil war and how it ended slavery, there was NO slavery in these newly added states. ...

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Politics and culture are parallel to one another because there is no clear cut formula to measure the amount of culture or politics. ... During that time period, there were two immerging political views, that of the northern radical republicans and of the southern conservative democrats. ... This provided colored men and women many more constitutional rights with the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution (Lichtenstein, Strasser, Rosenzweig - p.4). ... In conclusion, using the example of the Klu Klux Klan will allow all four of the corner stones to be indirectly connected showi...

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