Answer:
They were segregated and treated poorly before
Explanation:
They were treated in a terrible and unjust way, yet they still fought for their country again.
Answer:
After the Civil War, 4 million former slaves were looking for social equality and economic opportunity. It wasn't clear initially whether they would enjoy full-fledged citizenship or would be subjugated by the white population.
In the 1860s, it was the Republican Party in Washington — the home of former abolitionists — that sought to grant legal rights and social equality to African-Americans in the South. The Republicans — then dubbed radical Republicans — managed to enact a series of constitutional amendments and reconstruction acts granting legal equality to former slaves — and giving them access to federal courts if their rights were violated.
The 13th Amendment, which was ratified in 1865, abolished slavery. Three years later, the 14th Amendment provided blacks with citizenship and equal protection under the law. And in 1870, the 15th Amendment gave black American males the right to vote.
Five years later, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, a groundbreaking federal law proposed by Republican Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, which guaranteed that everyone in the United States was "entitled to the full and equal enjoyment" of public accommodations and facilities regardless of race or skin color.
"What the radical Republicans wanted, led by Charles Sumner in the Senate and Thaddeus Stevens in the House, was probably the largest experiment in social engineering ever taken," says constitutional scholar Lawrence Goldstone. "They wanted the federal government to take these four million newly freed slaves and integrate them fully into society virtually immediately."
Explanation:
1st
1791
Rights to Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition
2nd
1791
Right to Bear Arms
3rd
1791
Quartering of Soldiers
4th
1791
Search and Seizure
5th
1791
Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self-Incrimination, Due Process
6th
1791
Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions: Rights to Jury Trial, to Confront Opposing Witnesses and to Counsel
7th
1791
Jury Trial
8th
1791
Protections against Excessive Bail, Cruel and Unusual Punishment
9th
1791
Non-Enumerated Rights
10th
1791
Rights Reserved to States
11th
1795
Suits Against a State
12th
1804
Election of President and Vice-President
13th
1865
Abolition of Slavery and Involuntary Servitude
14th
1868
Protects rights against state infringements, defines citizenship, prohibits states from interfering with privileges and immunities, requires due process and equal protection, punishes states for denying vote, and disqualifies Confederate officials and debts
15th
1870
Voting Rights
16th
1913
Federal Income Tax
17th
1913
Popular Election of Senators
18th
1919
Prohibition
19th
1920
Women's Right to Vote
20th
1933
Commencement of Presidential Term and Succession
21st
1933
Repeal of 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
22nd
1951
Two-Term Limitation on President
23rd
1961
District of Columbia Presidential Vote
24th
1964
Abolition of Poll Tax Requirement in Federal Elections
25th
1967
Presidential Vacancy, Disability and Inability
26th
1971
Right to Vote at Age 18
27th
1992
Congressional Compensations