Effectiveness of the 13th, 14th, and 15th
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States
of America
by Barry Wright
Essay: Effectiveness of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of
America
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In this essay I will be writing about the effectiveness of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution of
the United States of America and considering whether they achieved the purpose of making life better for African
Americans. I’m going to start this essay by talking about the Amendments and what they were designed to
achieve.
In total there are 27 amendments to the Constitution, all with different ways to make America better. Around 1791
the first amendments were made but the amendments I will be looking at occurred later. The 13th Amendment
was made in 1865 and was designed to stop slavery forever, nobody in the US would work against their will. The
only exception is for prisoners that have been convicted of a crime.
The 14th Amendment was made in 1868 to allow every person who was born in America or who had become an
American citizen to have the same rights as any other citizen. Additionally, they were also a citizen of whatever
state they lived in. No state in America was allowed to make laws that limit US citizens’ rights and protection,
execute people, imprison people or take their property away without a legal process.
Finally the 15th Amendment was made in 1870 to assure that every person in the US had the right to vote and no
one could take that right away as a result of race, color or because citizens used to be slaves.
Was it really the end of slavery?
Was it really the end of slavery?
Even though the Amendments were enacted, things still weren’t exactly fair. Black families rented land from
wealthy white families on which to live and grow crops. White landowners took advantage of a loophole in the
13th amendment to force the black families to pay 2/3 of their profit or crop as rent. This process was called
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