Amendments During The Reconstruction Era

The Reconstruction Era was the time after the civil war, when they were trying to rebuild the south from the devastation that happened during the war. It lasted 12 years. From 1865-1877. There were three amendments that were passed in the reconstruction. They were the 13th, 14th, and 15th. The 13th amendment freed tThe 15th amendment made it where black people could vote. he slaves. The fourteenth amendment gave former slaves equal protection under the law. After Abraham Lincoln started the Reconstruction, then was assassinated, the vice president at the time, Andrew Johnson became president. Andrew thought that it would be okay to let the south treat the blacks how they wanted to treat them. The south of course treated the blacks terribly