jc456
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after the civil war ended, there was a true and obvious issue with allowing southern states to vote in USA elections. They actually had the power to control congress if exceptions were not enforced for those states.What gives any of us the right to vote? Being an American citizen use to be the answer what changed? What about amendment 14 of the Constitution?
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Reconstruction and Rights | Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 | U.S. History Primary Source Timeline | Classroom Materials at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress
When the Civil War ended, leaders turned to the question of how to reconstruct the nation. One important issue was the right to vote, and the rights of black American men and former Confederate men to vote were hotly debated.
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more simply put, had there not been active legislation on elections, the south would have actually ended up defeating the US in DC.