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The Bill of Rights was necessary for many states to ratify the US. Constitution. Three of the amendments were a direct result of the British abusing the colonists’ basic rights. List and describe two of these amendments and explain why the colonists felt these amendments were necessary.

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The Reconstruction Amendments are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870, the five years immediately following the Civil War.

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