The 14th Amendment

history of amendment

• July 9th 1868 the amendment was ratified
• Granted citizenship to everyone including slaves

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Content of amendment

• granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, including them under the umbrella phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” In all, the amendment comprises five sections, four of which began in 1866 as separate proposals that stalled in legislative process and were put into a single amendment.

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• This so-called Reconstruction Amendment prohibited the states from depriving any person of “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” and from denying anyone within a state’s jurisdiction equal protection under the law

Meaning of AMENDMENT

• aNYONE BORN IN THE US OR CONSIDERED A CITIZEN is equally free and independent and has the right to pursue their own dreams and owning their own property

Change from amendement

• black and whites now have equal rights
• led to segregation between the two
• Created the seperate but equal doctrine
• southern states were outraged by the amendment being ratified

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Conclusion

• I think the 14th amendment was very important and it is still in affect today
• Without the 14th amendment we wouldn't be as equal as we are now
• The amendment was the start of stopping inequality between citizens