Wealth And Fifteenth Amendments
The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were measures taken by the American government to ensure equal right after the civil war. The thirteenth amendment was declared to abolish slavery. The fourteenth guaranteed equal protection for everyone and the fifteenth guaranteed equal voting rights regardless of race. Together these are known as the Civil War Amendments. To a certain extent these amendments had an impact because it presented blacks with many opportunities.
Although the civil war amendments granted equality and opportunities it also presented very big problems. There was a lot of resentment towards the fact that a black man would become the equal of a white man. This resentment turned into Blacks being violently persecuted
by the Ku Klux Klan and other hate organizations. It also developed into racial segregation, mainly in schools. Blacks had been freed but most of them had no one and nowhere to turn to so they became caught in the new cycle of poverty along with whites. Some poor people got jobs in workmanship positions like a carpenter or plumber. But some people turned to sharecropping in some cases these sharecroppers became trapped in the vicious cycle of debt which turned into the new form of servitude. On the flipped Africans Americans had opportunities to become involved in communities and in the U.S government.
More than 140 years later today the Civil War Amendments present even more opportunities for everyone but the same social problems have taken on a new form. Today the big social problems are police brutality on African Americans and the mass incarceration of African Americans. The civil war amendments are great laws but they can't be fully enforced because of our freedom of speech. The amendments are just fine and change isn't necessary because they are slowly healing and integrating a nation. The Civil War amendments are slowly promoting equality and ingraining it into American history. Although there are still problems today in our society there are more opportunities than ever for African Americans.
Although the civil war amendments granted equality and opportunities it also presented very big problems. There was a lot of resentment towards the fact that a black man would become the equal of a white man. This resentment turned into Blacks being violently persecuted
by the Ku Klux Klan and other hate organizations. It also developed into racial segregation, mainly in schools. Blacks had been freed but most of them had no one and nowhere to turn to so they became caught in the new cycle of poverty along with whites. Some poor people got jobs in workmanship positions like a carpenter or plumber. But some people turned to sharecropping in some cases these sharecroppers became trapped in the vicious cycle of debt which turned into the new form of servitude. On the flipped Africans Americans had opportunities to become involved in communities and in the U.S government.
More than 140 years later today the Civil War Amendments present even more opportunities for everyone but the same social problems have taken on a new form. Today the big social problems are police brutality on African Americans and the mass incarceration of African Americans. The civil war amendments are great laws but they can't be fully enforced because of our freedom of speech. The amendments are just fine and change isn't necessary because they are slowly healing and integrating a nation. The Civil War amendments are slowly promoting equality and ingraining it into American history. Although there are still problems today in our society there are more opportunities than ever for African Americans.