THE 13TH, 14TH, AND 15TH AMENDMENTS

-The 13th Amendment-
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S. and continues to prohibit it to this day. It also made involuntary service illegal except when it is a punishment of someone who is convicted of a crime.

-The 14th Amendment(Section1)-
This amendment states that everyone born in the U.S. is a citizen of it and of their state, and no state can deny a person their life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

-The 15th Amendment-
This amendment prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, and previous conditions of servitude.

-Jim Crow Laws-
Jim Crow Laws where installed between 1874 and 1975 in the South to create a "separate but equal" treatment of everyone. They were, of course, truly made to show that people of color were inferior to everyone else. These laws could be as large as an entirely separate facility for education or as casual as a drinking fountain or even a bench.

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~Treatment of the 13th~
White citizens in the South obviously could not have slaves by any means, but since the idea of people being their objects was so engraved in their culture they just treated the people like they weren't really even people.

~Treatment of the 14th~
All people were part of the state they were born in and of the U.S. Many white people of each state treated people of color as if they had no place in the U.S. and as if they were just not supposed to belong to the U.S.

~Treatment of the 15th~
People of color where allowed to vote in the South, but because of the requirements to register and the lack of knowledge from many black people they were not able to register to vote.

SOME REASONS

• The states put a tax on voters that had to be paid two years before the election. Since most black citizens were poor they just couldn't afford to pay it.
• In order to register, you had to pass a literacy test where you would read part of the state constitution and explain it to a white clerk who would decide if you were literate or not. Many black people couldn't read due to poor education. The clerk would also give black people hard sentences and whites easy ones.

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