RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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What did the 14th amendment achieve?
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It ended slavery in the US.
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It gave citizenship to freed slaves and people born in the US.
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It allowed men to vote.
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It allowed women to vote
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A major provision of the 14th Amendment was to grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ” thereby granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment resolves a question that was hotly contested before the Civil War by providing the basic rule regarding acquisition of citizenship of the United States. It also confers state citizenship on national citizens who reside in a state.
Detailed explanation-3: -14th Amendment-Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt.
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