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3. What were the goals of the 14th Amendment? What rights did it seek to provide?

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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.”
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