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Which piece of Reconstruction legislation granted citizenship to African Americans?

a. the Thirteenth Amendment
b. the Fourteenth Amendment
c. the Black Codes
d. the Emancipation Proclamation

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The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including former enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.” One of three amendments passed during the Reconstruction era to abolish slavery and

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ITS B). FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

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It was the "Fourteenth Amendment" that granted citizenship to African Americans, since it granted citizenship to all natural born people of the United States--many of whom were recently freed slaves. 
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