13th amendment: abolished slavery, when slavery ended, plantation owners needed workers, sharecropping developed with former slaves working the fields, 14th amendment: granted citizenship to former slaves, provides for equal protection of the laws, provides for due process of law, 15th amendment: former male slaves voted for African-Americans for Congress, gave African-American men the right to vote, the right to vote cannot be denied based on race, Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the 1st African-American senator elected,

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