Why Is The 13th Amendment Important

Imagine living in a world where citizens preached that their country is the new free world and were granted rights and opportunities like no other country has done in the world. This may be true but as the matter of the fact, minorities and people of color could not get jobs, vote, or have rights like everyone else but instead live their lives as slaves and never treated like a human being. That is what the United States of America felt like and faced this reality from the day pilgrims settled on American soil all the way until 1965. During this period of American history. White Americans were extremely inhumane, racist and belittling towards slaves and minorities that were placed in the U.S. resulting in only benefiting the upper-class and
This was also referenced as the “Reconstruction Amendments” and it took The United States nearly 50 years to establish these three significant amendments that would benefit people of color to live the life they deserve in the U.S. The Thirteenth Amendment was placed so slavery would be abolished for good. On the other hand, the Fourteenth Amendment consisted of granting citizenship to anyone who was a slave at that point while in todays time, it is continued to be used to allow people across the world to have the opportunity to live in the United States. There also was the creation of The Fifteenth Amendment, this was the first step to have African-Americans receive access to contribute to the decision of selecting new Politicians or Presidents by giving them the right to vote. Without these three amendments in the U.S., there would not have been more chain reactions for more rights and laws created for minorities and people of color living in the United
That is when the Fifteenth Amendment steps in. 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—. The Fifteenth Amendment allowed anyone of color to vote for the first time in American history. The biggest reason for the Fifteenth Amendment to come to surface is due to the fact that the Republicans desired to entrench its power in the North and South. Shortly after, the measure was passed by Congress on February 26th, 1869 and was quickly ratified by 3/4th’s of the states on February 3rd, 1870. Same situation with the Fourteenth Amendment, because of majority vote, the South yet again lost power on deciding wether people of color were able to vote or not. Was the Fifteenth Amendment successful? Yes and no. It did provide the vote to blacks living in northern states, and it did encourage voting by blacks in the South for a period of