After this Amendment's ratification, the government was tasked with helping former slaves, or freedmen, transition into a life without slavery. Although there were many challenges, this Amendment did open the door for African-Americans to be elected to government office for the first time in U.S. history.
Ch 3, Reconstruction and the African American Experience

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13th Amendment
14th Amendment
12th Amendment
15th Amendment
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Congress ratified this amendment to the U.S. Constitution in an effort to protect freedmen in the south, after southerners attempted to deny them their rights by passing the black codes. With these new rights and protections African Americans felt a new sense of freedom in the south, and began to exercise those rights in favor of Congress and the republicans.
12th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
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This amendment allowed the federal government to legislate qualifications for voting, a right formerly left to the states. Despite the amendment, by the late 1870s discriminatory practices were used to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote, especially in the South.
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
12th Amendment
14th Amendment
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These limited the civil rights and freedom of movement of the freedmen, and preserved the structure of Southern society, despite the abolition of slavery. Freedmen were forced to stay on plantations as workers, were prevented from voting, serving on juries, testifying in court against whites, holding office, serving on the state militia, marrying or entering a labor contract with a white person.
Jim Crow Laws
Black Codes
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Wade Davis Bill
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This man was a former slave who was able to gain an educations and trade upon receiving his freedom. Later in life he became a politician, where he represented Mississippi as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881. When Reconstruction and his term ended no other African American was elected in the U.S. Senate for almost 100 years.
Thaddeus Stevens
Robert Smalls
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Blanche K. Bruce
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This act was one of Congress’ first major legislations to protect freedmen in the south by defining citizenship and affirming that all citizens are equally protected by the law.
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
Wade Davis Bill
Black Codes
Jim Crow Law
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This compromise marked the official end of active support from the Republican party in the South, pulling federal troops out of the South leaving the southern states to deal with African Americans without interference. The lack of support and supervision from the Republican Party opened up what would be referred to as The Nadir of Race Relations. It also created an environment where African Americans were subject to racially charged violence and discrimination in the form of legal segregation.
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1877
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1776
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