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Step-by-step explanation:
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including formerly enslaved people—and guaranteed all citizens “equal protection of the laws.” One of three amendments passed during the Reconstruction era to abolish slavery and establish civil and legal rights for Black Americans, it became the basis for many landmark Supreme Court decisions over the years.
Later provisions of the 14th Amendment required that anyone who "engaged in insurrection" against the United States be barred from holding civil, military, or elected office (without the consent of two-thirds of the House and Senate) and permitted the federal government to penalize states that violated or abridged the citizens' right to vote by proportionally reducing the states' representation in Congress.
It maintained the national debt as well, but spared the federal and state governments from having to repay any debts that the former Confederate states had accrued.