Was The 13th Amendment A Success Or A Failure?

The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
Chapter 16
16.1). Was the Thirteenth Amendment a success or a failure? Discuss the reasons for your answer. Ending slavery was not the reason a civil war was fought at all the civil war was fought to bring back the south back into unison with the north and to destroy the economic advantage that the south had due to slavery because the south was growing too powerful. The 13th amendment never made slavery unconstitutional, it merely set conditions on how slavery couple with peonage could remain constitutional. Well the debates over the reconstruction amendments had actually begun before the end of the civil war, therefore President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but he wasn't sure that he had the constitutional authority to free the slaves and therefore it was part of his party platform in 1864 that he would pass constitutional amendments abolishing slavery.
16.2). Consider the differences between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. What does the Fourteenth Amendment do that the Thirteenth does not?

So the differences between the 13th and the 14th amendment was one abolishes the slavery, while the other just made freed slaves citizens in which they lived in. The individuality of the 13th Amendment is that it applies to the individual, private acts of citizens; no state action is necessary. So the 14th amendment ostensibly was written to provide the former slaves with the same constitutional rights of freeborn american citizens, but only if they had agreed first to become subject to the jurisdiction of the corporate United states. Intent of the fourteenth amendment was to protect all rights. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the fourteenth amendment, particularly its first