The Fourteenth Amendment provided ___________________.

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The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and guaranteed them equal protection under the law. It also overturned the Dred Scott decision, which had denied citizenship to African Americans, and provided an opportunity for freed slaves to sue the states in which they were enslaved. It did not offer forgiveness to Confederates or provision for segregation of the races.

The Fourteenth Amendment Provided ___________________