The overwhelming Republican majority in Congress following the Civil War led to the passing of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Constitutional amendments. <span> 13th Amendment: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
14th Amendment: "</span><span>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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." </span><span> 15th Amendment: "</span><span>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." </span><span> Other plans during the period of Reconstruction were protective tariffs, a pro-business national banking system, and federal funding toward the construction of railroads.
they were both about land. In King Philip’s War the Englishmen were intruding on the Indian’s land. In Bacon’s Rebellion indentured servants did not get the land they agreed upon with the lords, since the land belonged to the Native Americans. In both of these situations the colonists tried to justify their actions by saying they were robbed of land.
In the beginning of the 1930's though the NAACP's legal Defence and education fund began to turn to the courts to try to make progress in over coming legally sanctioned discrimination from 1935 to 1938 the legal arm of the NAACP was headed by Charles Hamilton Houston
