After the war ended the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were added to the US Constitution. These new amendments protect equality for slaves as well as defining citizenship and ensuring voting rights. The thirteenth amendment was passed on December 6, 1865. It was passed before the southern states rejoined the Union because Lincoln thought that without the influence of southerner people it would be passed more easily. The thirteenth amendment states that the forced labour ship, if not for punishment, shall be outlawed.With this amendment slavery was finally banned in the United States. The fourteenth amendment was ratified on July 9th, 1868 under the presidency of Andrew Johnson. The amendment, gave citizenship to all who were born or naturalized in the US, with the involvement of recently freed slaves. It also keeps states from denying life, liberty or property without the process of the law. And it stated that everybody is protected equally under the law. The fifteenth amendment was passed on February 3, 1870, it will not fully be realized until a decade later. This amendment granted US citizens the right to vote to everybody. People with previous condition of servitude, racially different shall be able to vote.
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