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Analyze the excerpts and then choose the best answer to finish the statement below.
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
Section 1. 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. Ratified: December 6, 1865
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
Section 1. 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. Ratified: July 9, 1868
15th Amendment to the U.S. constitution:
Section 1. 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 or servitude. Ratified: February 3, 1870.
The Constitutional amendments adopted during Reconstruction were intended to...
-provide legal and political rights for African Americans
-end property and religious qualifications for voting
-correct problems with equal representation
-readmit the southern states who seceded back into the union