What did the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment accomplish?

Question

What did the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment accomplish?

Answer 1

Nothing, really. They were post Civil War amendments that sought to not only free slaves, but to give them the rights of a natural-born American citizen.

Legally, they gave former slaves the protection of the government to live free, gave them citizenship, and the right to vote.

Practically, nothing, as the southern states proceeded to enact the Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes, etc, including specific language that did not negate the federal amendments but subjected them to stringent state guidelines.

Answer 2

Rita, you're almost right.  I don't think you mean "appealed," and you surely don't mean "repealed," because those Amendments still stand.  

The 14th amendment gave citizenship to black men.  Notice that women of any color were still left out.  Early suffragists tried to use the 14th Amendment as a basis for giving women equal rights, but it was not until the 19th Amendment that women could vote.  

Interestingly, when they tried to pass the ERA (equal rights amendment), many people said it was not necessary because of the 14th Amendment--yet this did not give women the right to vote.  The way it's written, it should have, because it gives that right to "citizens."

Answer 3

If she wanted a link she woulda asked. The 13th emancipated blacks and abolished involuntary servitude except in the case of due process. The 14th gave former slaves citizenship, but was not enforced after the Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877. And the 15th provided them with democratic rights.

Answer 4

13th - abolishment of slavery

14th - equal rights to all men; including African Americans

15th - voting rights to all men; including African Americans

14th & 15th later appealed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & the Voting Rights Act of 1965

this opened the doors for African Americans to live as free citizens of the US.  However, it took over a century to actually get these given rights by the constitution.  African Americans faced discrimination, hate crimes, Jim Crow laws, residential segregation, racial segregation, racism, stereotypes and much more.  The only thing that the US government has failed to do is... educate the general public about African American history.  The books we read in school are all filtered to hide secrets to protect white ancestors and hide the African American story.