Amendments Help please!?

Question

Why was the 13th amendment crucial to helping the country after the Civil War?

Why was the 14th amendment crucial to helping the country after the Civil War?

Why was the 15th amendment crucial to helping the country after the Civil War?

Answer 1

After the civil war violence increased on blacks. So the amedments didn't really help the country the way Lincolin wanted it to. Blacks could vote but to do so would mean bodly harm or death. No slavery on paper but they became wage slaves. Where they were always in debt to whites and couldn't move or ever get out of debt (the scales were rigged by whites to always keep blacks in debt).

Answer 2

The 13th Amendment passed before the Civil War Abolished Slavery -- which after the election of Lincoln caused the Southern states to secede from the Union.The 14th Amendment , after the war, granted slaves automatic United States citizenship, and that they would have all the rights and privileges as any other citizen. (As we all know, this amendment was largely ignored up until the 1950's & 60's.) The 15th Amendment ensured that a person's race, color, or previous position as a slave could not be used to stop that person from voting. (As we all know, this amendment was ignored until the Voting Rights Act).

Hope this helps.  If you are doing this for a paper, I think the real point is that the Amendments did not do what they were intended to do until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's & 1960's enforced them  to be carried out and there is still work to be done today.