The fourteenth amendment (ratified 7/9/1868) --Guarantees rights of citizenship to all persons born in the United States.
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13TH amendmentThe 13th amendment FREED the slaves, the 14th amendment made former slaves US Citizens. So the correct answer would have to be 14th amendment (passed in 1866, ratified in 1868)
In 1866, the amendment was passed and gave blacks the right of citizenship in America. This affected the blacks because they are finally...the fourteen amendment did was made everyone citizens regardless of race .
The 14th amendment says that if you are born in the US you are a citizen. Beforethis amendment slaves born in the US were not citizens. Slavery was allowed by the original US Constitution but was not part of any amendment. Also, children born in the United States to citizens of other countries would not automatically be US citizens before this amendment was ratified.
The 14th Amendment granted freedmen US citizenship, and the 15th Amendment granted them the right to vote, also known as suffrage. They are 2 of the 3 amendments known collectively as the Reconstruction Amendments.
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