The Impact of the 14th and 15th Amendment on Americana This paper will cover the impact that the 14th and 15th Amendments had on Americana. It also summarizes the court trials, arguments, and violations. You will learn about what the 14th and 15th Amendments really mean. There were many things that happened because of the 14th and 15th amendments, and this paper will also cover that. On July 9, 1868 the 14th Amendment was ratified. The Amendment granted citizenship to the Civil Liberties of the slaves that were recently freed. The Senate passed the Amendment by a vote of thirty three to eleven on June 8, 1866. The House of Representatives passed the Amendment by a vote of one hundred and twenty to thirty two on June 13, 1866. The 14th Amendment is exactly as follows: “It granted citizenship With this, the Republicans passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867; this Act stated that the states must accept. This Amendment was one out of three that the Constitution adopted after the Civil War to guarantee black rights. On February 3, 1870 the 15th Amendment was ratified, although the promise of the Amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century. The House of Representatives passed the Amendment by a vote of one hundred forty four to forty four on February 25, 1869. The Senate passed the Amendment by a vote of thirty nine to thirteen on February 26, 1869. The 15th Amendment is exactly as follows: “The Amendment grants African American men the right to vote by declaring that the Right of Citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Although the 15th Amendment was a law, many states denied African Americans the right to vote. Eventually the African Americans were guaranteed a right to vote due to the 24th Amendment, the Civil Rights laws made this
...dom and right to vote established by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, blacks were still oppressed by strong black codes and Jim Crow laws. The federal government created strong legislation for blacks to be helped and educated, but it was ineffective due to strong opposition. Although blacks cried out to agencies, such as the Freemen's Bureau, declaring that they were "in a more unpleasant condition than our former" (Document E), their cries were often overshadowed by violence.
This led to the passing of the civil rights act and the voting act in the 1964 and 1965. This allowed for the African Americans to have the right to vote.
The date that the 13th Ammendement (prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude) was adopted. It was subsequently declared on the 19th of December 1865
The antebellum period was filled with important Supreme Court rulings that had an influential impact on the U.S. The case of Dred Scott vs. Sandford is a perfect example of a ruling that highly affected the U.S. In Dred Scott vs. Sandford the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans, whether a slave or free, were not American citizens and were unable to sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress did not have the power to ban slavery and in the U.S territories. In addition to, the Court also ruled that the Fifth Amendment protected the rights of slave owners because slaves were not classified as humans but as pieces of property. The devastating outcome of this court case had multiple effects on the U.S.; it gave more power to the National Government, it took away some of the sovereignty of states, overturned the Missouri Compromise, instigated the Civil War, and opened eyes of the Northerners.
Throughout time there have been many amendments to the United States Constitution. Some have had little to no effect on the population. One amendment that this writer will take a look at is the Fourteenth Amendment. The wording of the amendment has been debated here recently but bottom line it abolished slavery. This amendment also made an attempt to equalize everyone that is born here in America or naturalized. The ripple effect of this change to the constitution is still being felt today. It is hard to imagine living in a world where the African American community was not considered equal to the white man. A ground breaking distinction in the language written out in the document was that of it applying on the federal level as well as the state jurisdiction. This is especially important as we see the civil union marriages have conflict
In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was sign into the Constitution, granting women the rights to vote.
There are 33 amendments that have been offered up by Congress of those six flopped ratification by the mandatory three quarters of the state senates and four are officially still awaiting decision before state politicians. Beginning with the eighteenth amendment every amendment that was presented except for the nineteenth amendment and the still unresolved child labor amendment of 1924 has a definite time limit for ratification. There lies a mystery in the very first Thirteenth Amendment, the Titles of Nobility Amendment presented in 1810, which would have eliminated the citizenship of any American acquiring a title of nobility or honor from any foreign power or otherwise, the mystery is whether this amendment was ratified and has been illegally removed from the Constitution (Mount, 2010).
Many people overlook the 20th amendment when it should be the most well-known. First, a brief history on why we have the 20th amendment. Second, how the 20th amendment affected our country and how it is relevant today. Based off my research, you will surely have a greater knowledge on the importance of the 20th amendment.
Do you know how the 19th Amendment was formed? The Amendment was brought to congress over women suffrage. These women fought for their rights for 70 years. Finally getting the amendment ratified on August 18, 1920. The 19th Amendment states that “the right of citizen of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Women’s suffrage leads to the build up of the 19th Amendment.
History has been made today. Another amendment has been ratified giving more rights to the people of color in this country. After the 13th amendment declaring slavery unconstitutional and the 14th amendment granting citizenship to any person born in U.S. soil, we all knew one last thing had to be passed. The day came on February 26, 1896, when congress finally passed the 15th amendment, but it wasn’t until today that it was ratified. The 15th amendment now grants African Americans the right to vote. Black men will finally have their voice heard. They will vote just like any other men.
The fifteenth amendment was proposed to congress on February 26, 1869 and was ratified a year later. After the Civil war, the confederate states were forced to ratify the reconstruction amendments in order to be reinstated into the union.3 Charles Sumner, an advocate for equal rights, refused to vote as he believed that the amendment did not take necessary steps to prevent the development of various state laws that could disenfranchise black voters.4 Sumner was correct, by the 1890s many states had adopted legislature designed to keep blacks from voting. The Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests may be the most emblematic legislation of the period. These laws were passed in order to ke...
Tenth Amendment Our bill of rights all began when James Madison, the primary author of the constitution, proposed 20 amendments to the bill of rights and not the ten we know of today. Madison sent these twenty proposed rights through the House and the Senate and was left with twelve bills of rights. Madison himself took some of it out. These amendments were then sent to the states to be ratified. Virginia was the tenth state out of the fourteenth states to approve 10 out of 12 amendments.
In order to completely understand how far society has come and the amount of work that still must be done, in regards to being able to exercise our voting rights, we must first understand some of the voting barriers that minorities have faced in the past. It was not until 1870 that the 15th amendment was passed, declaring it unconstitutional for an individual to be denied the right to vote based on their color, race or previous condition of servitude. However, the 15th amendment only applied to male individuals, it did not guarantee the right for women to vote. Instead, female voters had to wait an additional fifty years until they were granted the privilege to vote. In 1920, the 19th amendment was finally passed, stating that regardless of gender every American citizen had the right to vote.
It had finally led to an end of the illegal barriers under the 15th Amendment and allowed African Americans to vote without any knowledge or character test. Johnson stated, “For years and years they had been tried and tried and tried and they had failed and failed and failed. And the time for failure is gone” (Johnson). The statistics showed a large increase of African Americans in each state in the South in 1966. By 1970, over a million African Americans had registered to vote by (Quoted in “Victory for Voters”). The Voting Rights Act not only allowed African Americans to vote, but it also opened up many new opportunities for them. After all, Lyndon Johnson had successfully achieved his main goal to get many supporters from the south and it changed the nation towards a positive direction after the
In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified. It was introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the reconstruction plan after the Civil War. The Fourteenth Amendment had three principles causes that ensured equal protection of the law to all citizens – including African Americans who were previously