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In which two ways did the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments affect formerly enslaved people living in the United States?

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The 14th Amendment (1868) guaranteed African Americans citizenship rights and promised that the federal government would enforce “equal protection of the laws.” The 15th Amendment (1870) stated that no one could be denied the right to vote based on “race, color or previous condition of servitude.”

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