1 Jan 1868 Jahr - 14 amendment ratified

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motivation: protect freedpeople and reassert Republican power in the South

June 1866: Congress created the Fourteenth Amendment

What the amendment did: Constitutional amendment ratified in 1868 made all native-born or naturalized persons U.S. citizens and prohibited states from abridging the rights of national citizens, thus giving primacy to national rather than state citizenship.
-Established national citizenship for persons born or naturalized in the United States
-Prohibited the states from depriving citizens of their civil rights or equal protection under the law
-Reduced state representation in House of Representatives by the percentage of adult male citizens denied the vote

Opposition: Johnson (but the public didn't agree with him, also the Radical Republicans had power come 1866 congressional elections)

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