Question

• The Thirteenth Amendment

• The Fourteenth Amendment
• The Fifteenth Amendment
The three items listed above are called the Reconstruction Amendments. What was the main purpose of these three amendments?
a=to rebuild cities that the war had destroyed
b=to free and grant basic rights to slaves
c=to punish the southern states for seceding
d=to admit three more states into the Union

Answer 1

The amendments were important in implementing the Reconstruction of the American South after the war, so b=to free and grant basic rights to slaves