The 14th amendment

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the states wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any laws which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law;nor deny to any person within it's jurisdiction the equal protection of the law

The 14th amendment was designed to protect the newly freed slaves. However, it only helped the white race. Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendment not knowing how it would affect all the other minorities. Minorities were still treated with disrespect and incivility from the white culture even when the law was passed but it did give the people who weren't white hope and somewhat of freedom in America during the mid 1800s.

The 14th amendment

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At the time the 14th Amendment was created, The Civil War had just come to an end, defeating the Confederacy. Abraham Lincoln, who was acting President, had declared the slaves freed at the end of the war; however, there were still a lot of questions regarding the former Confederates and the status of slaves in the country. To answer these questions, congress created the Reconstruction Amendments which included the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. The 13th Amendment was ratified in December of 1865 and officially put an end to slavery within the United States. This new law declared that slaves were no longer the property of the people, but it didn’t answer questions about the new rights that they were now guaranteed. As a result, the members of Congress created the 14th Amendment to detail the rights of these newly-freed former slaves

Important years

1860: Lincoln nominated

Goal of the 14th amendment

1861: Civil war begins

1865: End of civil war

Reaction of the people

1868:14th amendment ratified

The broad goal of the 14th amendment was to ensure that the Civil Rights act of 1866 would remain valid, ensuring that all people "excluding native americans" were citizens and were to be given full and equal benefit of the laws.

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The 14th amendment gave the blacks citizenship, but southern state laws denied the ex slaves any hope of exercising the rights of a US. citizen. It wasn't until the Civil Rights Laws of 1964 and 1965 that blacks were able to exercise their U.S. Constitutional rights even though Brown v Board of Education (1954) said segregation would no longer legal.

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The 14th Amendment

The affect of the 14th amendment

On July 28, 1868 the date that will be rembered as a crucial date to the United States Reconstruction, the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified. The Fourteenth Amendment gave new hope and inspiration to a once African-Americans from around the world in the 1800s. It was thought to be the foundation for restoring America to its great status and prosperity. The Amendment allowed “equal protection under the law”, no matter what race, religion, gender, or social status.

The United States of America would be a very diffrent place without the 14th amendment. Slaves would be free, but there would be a lot more confusion about their rights. The 14th amendment has helped a ton of people, and we would be terribly lost without it!