Reconstruction
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- Hello I am Fredrick and this is my friend John! We're here to talk to you about U.S. History!
- The Civil War has ended and there are still many problems to be solved. This set the U.S. into a period called the Reconstruction Era.
- The new President Johnson has put in motion his plan for reconstruction. This means slavery is abolished and the 13th amendment has been passed.
- The 13th amendment states that former slaves are now free! There is no more slavery in the United States.
- But the United States has not passed the 14th and 15th amendments yet.
- They haven't passed the amendments because the South has come out with the Black Codes.
- The Black Codes created a system in which African Americans were able to be bound to white plantation owners and be forced to work without pay.
- Northerners consider the Black Codes to be slavery under a new name. Managing this is making the ratification process slow down dramatically.
- The 14th amendment would give all African Americans citizenship and create equality amongst everyone.
- And the 15th amendment would allow all African American males to vote!
- But some people don't like the idea of African Americans getting the right to vote before women could.
- We can't wait for these new amendments to be ratified!
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