After the Civil War, African Americans gathered in rallies and protests, asking for same freedoms as white Americans. Their drive for this cause was what made people think about the possibility of African American citizenship and even freedom. The Reconstruction Amendments, which were the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, opened a myriad of new political ideas and opinions, especially for African Americans. As “The Reconstruction Amendments: Official Documents as Social History” by Eric Foner says, “The Reconstruction Amendments, and especially the Fourteenth, transformed the Constitution from a document primarily concerned with federal-state relations and the rights of property into a vehicle through which members of vulnerable minorities could stake a claim to substantive freedom and seek protection against misconduct by all levels of government”. It also said that, “The passage of these amendments reflected the immense changes American society experienced during its greatest crisis. The amendments reveal the intersection of political debates at the top of society and the struggles of African Americans to breathe substantive life into the freedom they acquired as a result of the Civil War”.