Three Pivotal Amendments Of The Reconstruction Era

After the Civil War, the United States entered a period known as the Reconstruction Era. During the Reconstruction Era, three pivotal amendments were passed and added to the Constitution. Amendment 13, passed in 1865 and perhaps the most crucial, abolished all slavery in the United States. Amendment 14 was passed in 1868 and granted African American citizenship, a step up from the 3/5 Compromise in which white slave owners could use each slave they owned as 3/5 of a person (and a vote) when it came time to vote for representatives in the late 1700s. The 15th Amendment, passed in 1870, granted black men the right to vote. Women did not receive that right until 1920, and black women did not receive that right until the 1960s.
The 13th Amendment,