Civil War Reconstruction

U .S . CIVIL WAR and the RECONSTRUCTION

INTRODUCTION

The civil is an important milestone in our United States history . The famous Gettysburg speech of President Abraham Lincoln verges on healing the wounds of war and immediate reconstruction of the Nation , especially the pro -slave South . Currently the struggle for continues in some pockets of American Society . Two of the most important laws on this area are the fourteenth amendment and the fifteenth amendment . The following paragraphs explains the issues relating to the U .S . civil war in more detail

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Explain the essence of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution .The essence of the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868 . It strongly prohibited the member states of the United States from denying or abridging the basic rights of each U .S . citizen . This same amendment also requires each member state to give on a silver platter its citizens the equal protection of the law and its accompanying due process clause this clause guarantees each United States This amendment was the offshoot of what President Abraham Lincoln had dreamed off . President Lincoln wanted a society where slaves would be treated as a free and equal person . This was what President Abraham Lincoln prayed for in his Gettysburg Address at the end of the United States civil war

The essence of the fifteenth amendment was ratified in 1870 . This gave the African American and all other citizens the right to vote . The right to vote shall not be denied any United States citizen on the basis of his or her race , condition of servitude or color (Perry 1999 , 68

What was the fate of those former Confederate states that refused to ratify these two laws

The confederate states that refused to ratify these two laws decided to create their own nation an break away from the United States . The Southern states of South Carolina , Virginia , Mississippi , Florida Louisiana , Georgia and Texas declared their independence from the United States in December 1860 an January of 1861 . Their main reason is that they wanted to keep their slaves because they were used to till their staple crops (Woodworth 2000 , 4

Are there any relationships between these two Amendments and more recent issues and concerns ? Explain

The fourteenth amendment gave the African Americans their equality . The fifteenth amendment was to ensure that the equality rights of the Non -white Americans included the right to vote for their political leaders .More recent issues include Martin 's Luther King 's very famous fight for equality for his African American race . He is well remembered for his 'I have a dream ' piece that reverberated across the entire United States (Lischer 1997 , 268

Name and describe three (3 ) main differences between Reconstruction policies outlined by Lincoln in his Second Inaugural and those carried out by his successors

President Abraham Lincoln 's reconstruction policies outlined in Second Inaugural emphasized the use of whatever power in to secure freedom and equality of the African American slaves . About half...