Constitutional Amendments Dbq

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In the period of 1865 to 1905, constitutional amendments and the elimination of slavery gave African Americans a new political representation and economical independence. Significant hardships were still faced over time from the slave like practice of sharecropping, social discrimination, and Jim Crow laws. Slavery ended with the thirteenth amendment, but it didn’t solve all problems for African Americans. The newly freedmen were in need of work and the former plantation owners needed workers to cover the labor. The southern economy was gone and plantation owners hired the freedmen as sharecroppers or tenant farmers. A sharecropper would earn their payment from some of the profit made with the crops. A tenant farmer rented some of the land …show more content…
A document from a radical republican and supporter of African Americans rights set forth the new qualities of the freedmen looking to reach the house of representatives and more generally the public. These people had to adapt into a world with nothing to account for and little understanding of the world they lived in freely. The new independence of the southern African Americans needed support economically for their life change. In a response to the black codes the fourteenth amendment granted citizenship to any person born in the United States and equal protection under the law regardless of race. The amendment was created as a direct response to the dred scott decision as well. The court held a case of a man suing for his freedom, but was denied since he was not considered an American citizen. The new freedom of the slaves created the question of voting rights and so began the push for suffrage of African Americans. New reconstruction acts were proposed by Radical Republicans in congress pursuing Radical Reconstruction and later on congress passed one as an amendment. The fifteenth amendment was made part of the constitution granting any man the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous servitude. A document from a politician on concern of African Americans in congress reached the public and politicians showing the numbers of African Americans present in congress. The 40th congress had zero participation and then by the 41st to 43rd the numbers increased. At the 45th congress numbers dropped and began to level out. African Americans went from having no say in government or politics to occupying seats in the House of Representatives or Senate. African American men that were once enslaved living in the south were able to form their own opinions and beliefs with hope in being heard. A document from a former slave supporting
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