USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Shortly after ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in December 1865, on January 5, 1866, Lyman Trumbull, the Senator from Illinois, introduced the first federal civil rights bill in the nation’s history.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was the first federal law to affirm that all U.S. citizens are equally protected under the law. The Act also defined citizenship and made it illegal to deny any person the rights of citizenship on the basis of their race or color.