RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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13th Amendment
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14th Amendment
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15th Amendment
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The 13th Amendment. It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime and it also empowered the Congress to pass appropriate law to effectuate its abolishment.
Detailed explanation-2: -1 Prohibition Clause. Thirteenth Amendment, Section 1: 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -14th Amendment-Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt.
Detailed explanation-4: -Howard explained, Section Five “enables Congress, in case the State shall enact laws in conflict with the principles of the amendment, to correct that legislation by a formal congressional enactment.”