The American Civil War, also known as the War Between the States, was a bloody war to end slavery. It all began with the secession of eleven states from the Union to form their own nation and be able to enslave African Americans. The eleven states formed the Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy, under their president Jefferson Davis. The Civil War broke out in 1861 when the North wanted to prevent the eleven Southern states from seceding and forming their own nation just so they could support slavery. However, despite the cold civil war of the 1860s, all efforts to achieve a “rebirth of freedom” were in vain. Even though the North was more advanced than the South and was supposed to defeat it in the war, it actually lost. By 1880, the South had defeated the weakened North and enslaved African Americans. After the Civil War, the American government had passed many amendments to guarantee the rights of African Americans, but all were in vain, as the South did not do so. follow them. Exhibit A shows that the XIII Amendment, passed in 1865 just after the Civil War, prohibited the use of slavery in the United States. Document B, Amendment XIV, states that no person and no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. It also states that everyone had the same protection of the laws. This amendment also passed following the Civil War of 1868. Passed in 1870, Amendment XV (Document C) further extended the rights of African Americans by giving them the right to vote regardless of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Document E was another Northern effort to secure the rights of African Americans. This paper is about the Force Bills and how they protected the middle of the charter, thus violating the 15th Amendment. All of these laws and bills represented the South's efforts to limit freedom to African Americans and so, by around 1880, the South was able to defeat the weakened North and re-enslave African Americans. Indeed the North won the Civil War with many of their advantages, but the lives lost to help African Americans gain freedom, were all in vain. All the North's efforts to achieve a "rebirth of freedom" have proved futile. All this is due to the Southerners, who passed laws and bills to limit the freedom and right to vote of African Americans. This included the black codes, poll taxes, literacy tests, the grandfather clause, and Jim Crow laws, which established "separate but equal." By the 1880s, the South had defeated the North's weakened effort to aid African Americans and had enslaved African Americans..