Question

Write two paragraphs that provide two different claims that support your central thesis. Try to include a topic sentence, data, warrant, counterclaim, and a rebuttal if possible in one or both of the paragraphs.

thesis: Of all the lasting effects from the Civil War, I believe the XIII Amendment has had the most important long-term effect on American society today.

Answer 1

The 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, formally abolished slavery in the territory of the United States. Through this amendment to the constitutional text, slavery was prohibited, thus protecting the rights of African Americans, who until then were subject to said slave and segregationist regime in the southern states of the country.

Although this amendment did not solve all the problems of black people in the country, it was a milestone in the development of civil rights for this social group, which advanced more quickly in the north of the country, while the southern states they applied segregationist policies after the end of Reconstruction.

Thus, finally, after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, African-Americans had access to the same rights as whites in the nation, applying this amendment in its entirety.