1) The Thirteenth Amendment was adopted in 1865, it ended slavery and/or involuntary servitude except in punishment for a crime.
2) The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted in 1868, and it defines all people born in the United States as citizens. It also required due process of law and required equal protection to all people.
3) The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in 1870 and it prevents the denial of a citizen’s vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
People believed that Lincolns plan was to lenient and they wanted to punish the South. They wanted to punish the South since the succession of the Union. Radical Republicans then passed the Wade-Davis Bill in 1864. The Wade-Davis Bill said that states could be readmitted and accepted back into the Union only after fifty percent of voters took an oath of allegiance to the Union after the result of the recent secession. The Bill went into recess since Lincoln pocket-vetoed the Bill and Lincoln then drastically refused to sign the vetoed Wade-Davis Bill. Congress then created the Freedman-Bureau which helped distributed the food supplies and the set aside land to the new population of freed slaves.
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