Constitution Part Tres

My question is why did 11-15 take so long to become amendments? These amendments indicate a very strong turning point in U.S. history. They show when people all started actually getting the same rights. Amendment 12 has to do with choosing the president and vice but I find boring so I'm not going to go over it. Amendment 13 is all about slavery and "involuntary servitude" (which I think they added just to make the amendment longer because it's the same thing) being abolished except if it used as a punishment to a crime. That's kind of mean. Criminals have to be slaves is what that's saying. This amendment includes all of the U.S. and those other countries we like to boss around. Numero 14 states a lot of stuff that I didn't understand but I know it says that people who are born in the United States are citizens and the government can't take our rights away. Then it says something about how Indians weren't included in the state population which is messed up because before the Whites came they were the state's populations. The 15th amendment is saying everyone could vote no matter what race which is how we got to having our first Black president. Obama better be thankful of this one.

I think this was the time for these laws to be passed because of how much controversy and rebellion was going on at the time. The United States was in complete chaos with all the talk about everyone being equal and protecting all the citizens rights. The whites of high up were finally outnumbered and didn't know what else to do. So they gave in and then tried to make it seem like they did it because America needed a change. Whites needed to view Blacks as their equals.



The most important amendment from 16-27, I think is amendment 19. This is when women were finally allowed to vote. Before the 1920's there was no way they would let a women do these things. I think when we began voting is when we were finally recognized as a threat to men. Not just with voting, but with working too. It is a starting point for people to start waking up and seeing that times were changing and women were strong. We still have a long way to go in being treated as equals to men but I think this was the beginning of finally being recognized as a competitor.