Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

13,14,15 amendments

The reconstruction amendments

This Freed all slaves

How this helped

Abraham Lincoln helped pass the 13th amendment

​Abraham Lincoln

People who helped 1

This gave all Americans citizenship

How this helped

Congress helped pass the 14th amendment

​Congress

People who helped 2

Grant gave Black Americans the right to vote

How this helped

Grant helped pass the 15th amendment

​President Grant

People who helped 3

They put all people to tried to fight for wanting slaves were put in jail

​How did they stop this

Some people still wanted slaves and think it is what they deserve

​Why?

People who still wanted slaves

These 3 amendments are called the reconstruction amendments

​What there called

these 3 amendments were created to stop and racist policies or laws

​Why they exist

Created to counteract racist policies

Group that was created

​The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

After the Reconstruction Amendments were passed, this white supremacist terrorist group was created. They were very racist and did not like these amendments