To amend the Constitution Congress proposes an amendment. The Archivist of the United States, who runs the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), is charged with administering the ratification process. The Archivist has delegated many of the duties associated with this function to the Director of the Federal Register. The Archivist and the Director of the Federal Register follow procedures and customs established by the Secretary of State, who performed these jobs until 1950, and the Administrator of General Services, who served in this capacity until NARA assumed responsibility as an independent agency in 1985. An amendment is a change or addition to the Constitution. The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. The first step is the Proposal. The Proposal is when an amendment can be proposed by either a two-thirds vote in Congress, including both the House of Representatives and the Senate, or a national convention made up of two-thirds of the states. All our current amendments were proposed by …show more content…
This occurred mainly because the 13th amendment became an instrument for Americans to change their views on African-Americans. More importantly, the 13th amendment became a way to stop slavery. It has opened many possibilities not only to African-Americans, but also to other races who are now living in America. The 13th Amendment set a new ability to see, hear, and become aware that everyone is equal. That everyone has the right to live here in America equally. After all these years, the 13th Amendment still applies to us. It still lives inside the hearts of everyone that was affected by it. Slavery will continue to spread, wars will continue to have no end. This amendment important to me because it ended slavery in the United States once and for
In this essay I will be writing about the effectiveness of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America and considering whether they achieved the purpose of making life better for African Americans. I’m going to start this essay by talking about the Amendments and what they were designed to achieve.
Groups of people soon received new rights. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. It gave black Americans full citizenship and guaranteed them equal treatment. Also, it passed the Fourteenth Amendment to make sure that the Supreme Court couldn’t declare the Civil Rights Act unconstitutional. The amendment made blacks citizens of the United States and the states in which they lived. Also, states were forbidden to deprive blacks of life, liberty, or property without due process. Additionally, blacks could not be discriminated by the law. If a state would deprive blacks of their rights as citizens, it’s number of congressional representatives would be reduced. The Civil Rights Act as well as the Fourteenth Amendment affected both the North and the South.
We saw the Thirteenth Amendment occur to abolish slavery. We also saw the Civil Rights Acts which gave full citizenship, as well as the prohibiting the denial of due process, etc. Having the civil rights laws enabled African Americans to new freedoms which they did not used to have. There was positive change occurring in the lives of African Americans. However, there was still a fight to suppress African Americans and maintain the racial hierarchy by poll taxes and lengthy and expensive court proceedings. Sadly, this is when Jim Crow laws appeared. During this time African Americans were losing their stride, there was an increase in prison populations and convict labor, and the convicts were
The 13th amendment to the Constitution legally ended slavery, however, one could argue that socially and economically it did not. Once African Americans were free, they had nothing and were given very little. Due to the racist attitudes that were rampant in the South, it was nearly impossible to find anything but low paying, unskilled jobs. Because blacks needed work and plantation owners had vacant land they came to a compromise – sharecropping. Sharecropping was an agreement that in exchange for land, a cabin, and tools, at a very high interest rate, the landowner would receive a portion of the harvest. Although this may sound like a good deal, the high interest rates made the debt nearly impossible to repay, thus once again the African Americans were under control of the white race. The contracts also included clauses that were sim...
The after affects of the case spark a huge controversial argument between the north and the south. It angers abolitionists and becomes a contributing factor in starting the Civil War. The major outcome of this case was the fourteenth amendment, which granted citizenship to all natural born United States citizens, including African Americans, as well as the thirteenth amendment which completely abolished slavery.
... addition to preserving the Union. By the end of the war, it had influenced citizens to accept the abolition for all slaves in both the North and South. The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States, passed on December 6, 1865.
... Over the course of the next century, the 14th Amendment would be used by the Federal government, particularly the Supreme Court, to integrate African Americans and other cultures into the society. This was and is a major step in the evolution of the United States into the melting pot of freedom that it has become known to be.
To the African American community the 15th amendment was the most important amendment to the constitution. The 15th Amendment was made to provide every man, no matter what color he was, the right to vote. This made every man equal, although not all were treated that way. The 15th Amendment was very significant to many Americans of different races. This Amendment changed their lives forever by allowing them to vote.
The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution proclaims that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” This amendment was the piece of history that abolished slavery and did innumerable things for our country, but it also made room for something now known as black criminality. Through the thirteenth amendment emancipation was born. Through the language of the constitution— “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime”, the amendment was able to make loopholes for certain social agendas that led to the opposite of what the amendment intended to do.
During the time of reconstruction, the 13th amendment abolished slavery. As the Nation was attempting to pick up their broken pieces and mend the brokenness of the states, former slaves were getting the opportunity to start their new, free lives. This however, created tension between the Northerners and the Southerners once again. The Southerners hated the fact that their slaves were being freed and did not belong to them anymore. The plantations were suffering without the slaves laboring and the owners were running out of solutions. This created tension between the Southern planation owners and the now freed African Americans. There were many laws throughout the North and the South that were made purposely to discriminate the African Americans.
In 1860, blacks were enslaved in the south. By 1877, blacks were legally allowed to vote and have all the rights afforded to any white man. The first major change to blacks’ rights was made by the thirteenth amendment. It abolished slavery in the United States; however it left blacks in a limbo between slaves and citizens. Some government officials, such as Gideon Welles, disagreed with the federal government dealing with civil rights. Contrary to their wishes, the next change came from the fourteenth amendment, which established blacks as full citizens. This was much to the delight of blacks who fought for the Un...
Since the Thirteenth amendment abolished slavery it made it so African Americans were no longer property but they didn’t gain citizenship until the Fifteenth amendment. The farmers in the south were not happy when slavery was abolished, they were furious. Even after slavery was abolished and American Americans had citizenship, they were still discriminated against in the South. That is one of many reasons why many African Americans moved to the North. They moved into bigger cities and as a result of that Americans moved to the suburbs just outside of the big cities. The Fourteenth amendment gave citizenship to those born in the United States.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are the amendments adopted to the United States Constitution after the Civil War. In succession, these amendments were adopted to the Constitution.
Slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, but blacks, other minorities, and women continued to be deprived of the right of citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment was passed in 1868, making blacks citizens and promised them the "equal protectio...
Throughout the years, there have been many influential acts and laws passed through our government. The Thirteenth Amendment which states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction,” (history.com) has so impacted our nation that we still see its effects in our lives today. It has played a huge role in shaping our country into what we are today. The Thirteenth Amendment provided hope and stability to our nation and African Americans alike, after coming out of a long war and an even longer battle with slavery.