PSC 113 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Equal Rights Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
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The three amendments added to the constitution (thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth) after the. Civil war to establish the legal status and rights of the newly freed slaves. Bars states from depriving anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Equal protection clause: states may not deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Early reconstruction under pres johnson was bad for ex slaves. All land under federal control returned to previous owners from 1865. Sharecropping: no 40 acres and a mules that was promised during the war. A practice that emerged following the emancipation of african-american slaves. Sharecropping was the system of farming that doomed former slaves to a life of poverty in the years following the civil war. Form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land.
