Of the Civil War Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment had the most far-reaching effect on the meaning of the Constitution. It conferred both national and state citizenship upon birth, thereby ...

The amendment was passed in the aftermath of the Civil War, in 1868. It awarded citizenship rights to emancipated slaves who were born in the United States. It would take many Black Americans a ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... A new chapter in American history opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865, was implemented.

The 14th Amendment is known as a Reconstruction amendment, because it was added to the Constitution after the Civil War in ...