how did the 13th, 14th, and 15th ammendments affect slavery after the civil war?

Answer 1

The 13th amendment abolished slavery. Former slaves were set free, and a large push was made to reunite families that had been seperated.
The 14th amendment gauranteed former slaves civil rights.
The 15th amendment gave black men the right to vote.

Heres an example of how law does not work.....
n May 1865, President Andrew Johnson offered a pardon to all white Southerners except Confederate leaders and wealthy planters (although most of these later received individual pardons), and authorized them to create new governments.
Blacks were denied any role in the process. Johnson also ordered nearly all the land in the hands of the government returned to its prewar owners -- dashing black hope for economic autonomy.

The new legislatures passed the Black Codes, severely limiting the former slaves' legal rights and economic options so as to force them to return to the plantations as dependent laborers. Some states limited the occupations open to blacks. None allowed any blacks to vote, or provided public funds for their education.

Be it further enacted, That every civil officer shall, and every person may, arrest and carry back to his or her legal employer any freedman, free *****, or mulatto who shall have quit the service of his or her employer before the expiration of his or her term of service without good cause, and said officer and person shall be entitled to receive for arresting and carrying back every deserting employee aforesaid, the sum of five dollars, and ten cents per mile from the place of arrest to the place of delivery, and the same shall be paid by the employer, and held as a set-off for so much against the wages of said deserting employee.(section 7 of the missippi black code 1865)

As soon as blacks gained the right to vote, secret societies sprang up in the South, devoted to restoring white supremacy in politics and social life. Most notorious was the Ku Klux Klan, an organization of violent criminals that established a reign of terror in some parts of the South, assaulting and murdering local Republican leaders.

In the generation after the end of Reconstruction, the Southern states deprived blacks of their right to vote, and ordered that public and private facilities of all kinds be segregated by race.

It truly wasn't until the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's that the 14th and 15th amendments meant anything at all. The South continued thier policy of racial hatred and segregation. While the southern states never went s far as to completely defy federal law, they did enact codes for the freed slaves which made it nearly impossible for them to excercise their rights.

Sorry this is so long. There much more to it, and this is as short as I could make it! Good question, by the way.

Answer 2

Slavery was abolished by the 13th, citizenship was granted to former slaves by the 14th, and the vote was extended to former slaves by the 15th.

Basically, these three amendments ushered in the carpetbagger era in the south, which is sometimes called Reconstruction. All sorts of swindlers, sharpsters and bureaucrats went south from the victorious north and made themselves important with political and economic power. They duped and used the former slaves, they robbed the former slaveholders, and built themselves wealth and power. Some of them are still there, still milking the systems their great-grandparents put in place.

In so doing, the Republicans effectively created the phenomenon known as the Dixiecrat: a southerner so dedicated to the Democratic party that they threatened to make it a separate party rather than surrender their racism. You had politicians and users all over the south for the next hundred years, taking advantage of the ignorance of whites and blacks alike.

But that's another story.