What did the Fourteenth Amendment accomplish?
A) It made all people born in the United States citizens.
B) It pardoned many of the people Johnson had pardoned.
C) It made the black codes constitutional.
D) It explicitly gave black men the right to vote.

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The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States and granted them equal protection under the law. This included former slaves who were previously not considered citizens.

What Did the Fourteenth Amendment Accomplish