Amendments that expand democracy 15th amendment - prohibits denial of voting rights based on race…
• 15th amendment was a final guarantee of blacks right to vote (it also forced some northern states to allow African Americans the right to vote).…
Voting Rights: under the 15th Amendment black people had the legal right to vote in America. However, especially in Southern states, the government found loop…
The Reconstruction era, when former Confederate states were integrated back into the Union, followed the end of the brutal and transformative Civil War. Between 1865 and 1877, President Lincoln was assassinated and President Johnson came to power with conflicting opinions resulting in his impeachment, the Constitution underwent major revision with three amendments added to it, there were many efforts to solidify Union control and create equality in the defeated South, however, this ignited a fierce backlash as various terrorist organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, engaged in a violent battle to maintain a pre-Civil War society of white power and African American enslavement. Many claimed that “although the North won the Civil War, the South…
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude…
Democracy is a system of government built for the welfare of the people by the people of their country. After the civil war (1861-1865), the time periods – Reconstruction, Gilded Age, and the 1920s – showed dramatic changes in the US democracy socially and politically. The US democracy progressed the most in the 1920s amongst the three above mentioned time periods, as every group in the society aim for social and political rights. The Reconstruction period (1865-1877), as the name suggests, was a period of massive remodeling of the US democracy.…
“The right to citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race color, or previous conditions of servitude.” This amendment was granting African American men the right to vote. This was adopted into the United States Constitution on the 30th of March in 1870. It was passed by the congress a year before. By the late 1870’s, many people of Caucasian race did not want this amendment to pass. They did not want the African American people to vote especially in the South states. After years and many months of discrimination towards one color the voting right act of 1963 came to overcome its barriers at local levels still trying to deny blacks their rights to vote under the 15th amendment congress stayed on this topic for two months or more having several different versions of the amendment, some were submitted, questioned, overruled, and reevaluated in the house and senate…
The Reconstruction era was a turbulent, chaotic and at times confusing period. There were failures, but there were also successes. There was monumental Constitutional changes implemented, even though there were some steps back, such as when President Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act in 1866 and the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill. A strong, united Congress repassed the Civil Rights Act and the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill after the veto, which primarily put Reconstruction back in the hands of Congress instead of the President.…
The Civil war took place due to slavery and preventing African Americans from withdrawing from the United states. After the ending of the Civil War of 1865-1877, Reconstruction took place. The reconstruction began after the North had won its victory against the South. It was a process of readmitting Southern states into the southern union. During this period there was a controversy because of Abraham Lincoln's assassination however, Johnson replaced his position as president.…
After the Civil War during 1863 to 1877, also known as the Reconstruction Era, the Southern economy was in disaster, they had political and social disorders. The Reconstruction Era was to restore the unification of the United States and to give basic rights to African Americans. The Reconstruction Era was a success due to the creation of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendment. Although the Reconstruction was a success, it was also a failure because the Southern Democrats bended the rules and restricted African American’s freedom, restricted their voting rights and created the Black Codes.…
The main goal of Reconstruction was to bring the rebel states back into the Union, and to help the freedmen become a part of society. Although there was a lot of abuse, and Reconstruction didn't go as smoothly as it was intended to be, these two goals were achieved as much as was possible. So,the resulting outcome has been labeled both a success and a failure.…
This overrode Johnson’s vetoes of Bureau Act and it provided a legal shield against the operation of the Black Code. Finally, Congress ratified the 15th Amendments that secured vote for Americans and prohibited any state from denying people’s rights to votes regarding to their color, and race. With this ratification, Congress guaranteed equal rights to all the…
Reconstruction Era The Reconstruction Era of the 1860’s began before and continued well after the Civil War. The plans were designed to bring the union back together. Today some historians argue that reconstruction failed. Lincoln, Johnson, and the Radical Republicans, all had ideas and plans of how they wanted to bring the union back together. They all worked diligently to get their plans, laws, and proclamations into action.…
The 15th amendment is important because any and everyone can vote, but they have to have the age to be able to vote. “The 15th amendment was important in that it not only finally gave African Americans the right to vote, but also allowed the most African Americans in history to be elected into public office.” That is important because in the past this would have been outrages and Barack Obama might not had become the President of the United States of America…
“We have fought for the democratic principles of equality under the law, equality of opportunity, equality at the ballot box, for the guarantees of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” - Mary McLeod Bethune. It was not until February 3rd, 1870, when Congress ratified the 15th Amendment granting African American men the right to vote. “The inauguration of a President is an event in which the whole nation is interested, and which emphasizes the fact of citizenship, as perhaps nothing else does, coming as it does after the election, and growing out of it.” - Francis J. Grimke. Nevertheless, many colonists did not agree to the ratification of the 15th Amendment, therefore they gave a hard time for African Americans cast their vote on election day. For example, the South was a more intimidating part of the United States for African Americans. As a result of that, a high rate of individuals from the Black community moved to the North, where it consisted of less segregation and discrimination. “Some kind and good friends advise me to quit my country, and stay in Canada, until the tempest is passed.” - Jermain Wesley Loguen. Consequently, then came the establishment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to strengthen the voting rights guaranteed by the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, therefore this act secured voting rights for racial…