The Fourteenth And Fourteenth Amendment - 1018 Words

Daniel Rivero Rivero 1 Mrs. Sendros Iglesias English 8 Period 1 October 27 2015 The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendment Want to learn how everyone is equal? On May 17, 1954 the United States Supreme Court came to a decision that had immediate repercussions on the lives of black and white American citizens. Historic moment experiences have continually characterized these people into distinct racial and social entities. The thirteenth and fourteenth amendment had a positive affect on the problem of racism and segregation.The thirteenth amendment was created to abolish slavery and the fourteenth amendment was†¦show more content†¦The fourteenth amendment grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States which included slaves who had been freed after the Civil War. The fourteenth amendment had been rejected by most states but was ratified by the required three-fourths of the states. Known as the Reconstruction Amendment, it forbids any state to deny any person life, liberty or property, without due process of law or to deny to any person within its jurisdicti on the equal protection of the laws. Slavery had been enshrined in the Constitution through provisions such as Article I, Section 2, Clause 3, known as the Three-Fifths Compromise, which detailed how each state s total slave population would be factored into its total population count for the purposes of apportioning seats in the United States House of Representatives and direct taxes among the states. Many slaves are free because of President Abraham Lincoln s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, their post war status was uncertain. On April 8, 1864, the Senate passed an amendment to abolish slavery. After one bad vote and extensive legislative maneuvering by the Lincoln administration, the House followed suit on January 31, 1865. The measure was quickly ratified by nearly all Northern states, along with a sufficient number of border and reconstructed Southern states, to cause it