RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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10th Amendment
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13th Amendment
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12th Amendment
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14th Amendment
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Fourteenth Amendment, proposed later that year and adopted in 1868, supplied a permanent federal definition of American and state citizenship and strengthened the equal protection implications of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some southern states began actively passing laws that restricted the rights of former slaves after the Civil War, and Congress responded with the 14th Amendment, designed to place limits on states’ power as well as protect civil rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.