Introduction
After the civil war ameica enterd a new age with new amedmints polices and perspectives in the web quest wil talk about 13,14,15 new polices.
Task
Our task is to share and learn how reconstrucktion treated the future of ameica.
Process
The process we are useing involves reasearch and analysis of the reconstrucktion in ameica.
Evaluation
The effect of the 13th amendment was that slavery was banned.
The effect of the 15th amendment was hardly noticable, because the rule that blacks should be allowed to vote got evaded for a long time. Eventually, the Voting Rights Act made the 15th more effective, and that has finally meant that blacks have the equal right to vote.
The effect of the 14th amendment has been the largest. First of all, the freed slaves became citizens. But more importantly, over the long-haul, it has come to pass that the US Supreme Court has forced all state and local governments to justify every law that gets challenged a kind of "Is this law really necessary?" command is being implemented. The Court strikes down ANY law that they don't see as necessary, with whatever new whim gets ahold of the Justices.
the Freedmen's Bureau was a us fedaral goverment agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) during the Reconstruction era of the united state though by 1870 it had been considerably weakened The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which established the Freedmen's Bureau in March 1865, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War The Freedmen's Bureau was an important agency of the early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen (freed ex-slaves) in the South. The Bureau was part of the United States Department of War. Headed by Union Army General Oliver O. Howard, the Bureau was operational from 1865 to 1872. It was disbanded under President Ulysses S. Grant.
The Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14 Stat. 27-30, enacted April 9, 1866, is a United States federal law that was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of African-Americans, in the wake of the American Civil War. This legislation was enacted by Congress in 1865 but vetoed by President Andrew Johnson. In April 1866 Congress again passed the bill. Although Johnson again vetoed it, a two-thirds majority in each house overcame the veto and the bill ostensibly became law.
John Bingham and some other congressmen argued that Congress did not yet have sufficient constitutional power to enact this law. Following passage of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, Congress reenacted the 1866 Act in 18ump to: navigation, search
The Enforcement Act of 1871 (17 Stat. 13), also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871, Force Act of 1871, Ku Klux Force Act, Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act, or Third Ku Klux Klan Act. The act empowered the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to combat the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other white supremacy organizations during the Reconstruction Era. The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress during the Reconstruction Era and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on April 20, 1871. The act was the last of three Enforcement Acts passed by the United States Congress from 1870 to 1871 during the Reconstruction Era to combat attacks upon the suffrage rights of African Americans
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 (18 Stat. 335-337),[2] sometimes called Enforcement Act or Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era that guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and prohibited exclusion from jury service. The Supreme Court decided the act was unconstitutional in 1883
The differences and similarities between the rich and the poor can often be seen as subjective and stereotypes when one compares and contrasts the two. Rich people are seen as callous and uncaring, while poor people are seen as martyrs and sufferers, but these types of people can exist no matter how much money he or she has. However, rich people do not have to constantly worry about how they will pay a bill or buy enough food for the week. Poor people worry about this constantly, as many make barely enough to get by and are often behind on bills and buy non-nutritious food because it costs less.
Since the early 1800s, many laws in both North and South discriminated systematically against free Blacks. In the South, "slave codes" placed significant restrictions on Black Americans who were not themselves slaves. A major purpose of these laws was maintenance of the system of white supremacy that made slavery possible.
With legal prohibitions of slavery ordered by the Emancipation Proclamation, acts of state legislature, and eventually the Thirteenth Amendment, Southern states adopted new laws to regulate Black life. Although these laws had different official titles, they were and are commonly known as Black Codes. (The term originated from "negro leaders and the Republican organs" according to Confederate historian John S. Reynolds. The defining feature of the Black Codes was vagrancy law which allowed local authorities to arrest the freedpeople and commit them to involuntary labor
After the American Civil War, the South was in ruins and there was doubt about how the Southern states would treat newly freed slaves. So the US government instituted a 15-year policy known as Reconstruction, in which the military was stationed in the South in order to maintain law and order now that the Confederate government was gone, help rebuild the infrastructure after the devastation of the war, and ensure the equal treatment of whites and blacks, for instance concerning the ability to vote. Reconstruction is widely viewed as a failure; the South suffered from a lot of exploitative Northern entrepreneurs known as "carpetbaggers", and in the end the South reverted to unequal treatment of blacks through Jim Crow laws.