HISTORY 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eric Foner, Reconstruction Amendments, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
13 Jul 2015
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The promise and retreat from reconstruction: the (radical) reconstruction amendments, amendment xiv. All persons born or naturalized in the united states, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the united states and of the state wherein they reside. The explicit right to vote is not included in the 14th amendment. Is so broad and sweeping, legislatures and courts are able to exploit. As it comes to be interpreted, separate but equal is deemed to be okay (allows segregation) The right of citizens of the united states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the. United states or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Exclusions from 15th ammendment: implications for women of 14th and 15th amendment. If you can"t remove the vote on the basis of race. Reconstruction as imagined and created by freedpeople: eric foner on freedom as imagined by the freedpeople: http://wwnorton. com/college/history/give-me-liberty4/ch/15/authorvideo. aspx.
