RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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13th Amendment
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14th Amendment
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15th Amendment
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pursuant to the Fourteenth Amendment and the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) a person born within and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States automatically acquires US citizenship, known as jus soli ("right of the soil").
Detailed explanation-3: -Before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, the antebellum United States generally embraced the common-law doctrine of citizenship by birth within the country.
Detailed explanation-4: -14th Amendment-Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt.