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.
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.
