JP Doucette 4-21-10 Period 3 APUSH Our Inheritance - A ... - Teacher

abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as
punishment for a crime.
9. April 9, 1866 - The first of two Civil Rights Acts passed during Reconstruction
declares that all persons born in the United States, except untaxed Indians, are
citizens and have equal legal and property rights. Adopted over President Andrew
Johnson’s veto, the act sought to counteract the Black Codes adopted in former
Confederate states.
10. July 28, 1868 - The 14th Amendment, which extends citizenship to all persons born
in the United States and guarantees due process and equal protection of the law, takes
effect.
What is your thesis to explain the relative success (or lack of it) in this movement?
Through years and years of perseverance and determination, the Abolition
Movement finally found it’s success through the passing of several pieces of legislation
including the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights Act, and perhaps most
importantly, the 13th and 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution. These
pieces of legislation and the movement as a whole laid the groundwork for not only
future movements regarding the rights of African-Americans, but for all reform
movements collectively.