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The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history and Southern United States history that followed the American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865) and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of the abolition of slavery and the reintegration of the eleven former Confederate States into the United States.
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. [7]
Thirty-three amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution was put into operation on March 4, 1789. Twenty-seven of those, having been ratified by the requisite number of states, are part of the Constitution.
Opinion: 13th Amendment has been cited to address what we consider modern forms of slavery, i.e., sex trafficking, bondage or aggravated kidnapping.
The Reconstruction Acts, or the Military Reconstruction Acts (March 2, 1867, 14 Stat. 428-430, c.153; March 23, 1867, 15 Stat. 2-5, c.6; July 19, 1867, 15 Stat. 14-16, c.30; and March 11, 1868, 15 Stat. 41, c.25), were four statutes passed during the Reconstruction Era by the 40th United States Congress addressing the requirement for Southern States to be readmitted to the Union.
Secretary of State William H. Seward announced the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment on December 18, 1865. [25] The Thirteenth Amendment was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War, [26] the other two being the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
1867 – Nebraska becomes a state; 1867 - Congress passes a series of Reconstruction acts and the period of Radical Reconstruction begins; 1868 – Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, acquitted by the Senate by one vote. 1868 – Fourteenth Amendment is ratified; second of Reconstruction Amendments. 1868 – The Copperheads are dissolved.
The nation celebrates the Centennial of the United States of America despite news from the Little Bighorn, July 4, 1876; The Territory of Colorado is admitted to the Union as the State of Colorado (the 38th state) on August 1, 1876; Rutherford B. Hayes becomes the 19th president of the United States on March 4, 1877