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-Constitutional amendment passed in 1866 that made all native-born or naturalized persons U.S.citizens and prohibited states from abridging the rights of national citizens.The amendment hoped to provide guarantee of equality before the law for black citizens.
A)black codes
B)carpetbagger
C)Civil Rights Act of 1866
D)Compromise of 1877
E)Fifteenth Amendment
F)Fourteenth Amendment
G)Freedmen's Bureau
H)Ku Klux Klan
I)Military Reconstruction Act
J)Redeemers
K)scalawag
L)sharecropping

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The description matches the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and prohibited states from denying anyone "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or "equal protection of the laws." It was intended to ensure equal protection for all citizens, including African Americans, and to nullify the infamous Dred Scott decision that had denied citizenship to slaves and their descendants.

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