Learn how the pardoning of insurrectionists by Presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant led to periods of national harmony and violence.

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 Trump administration is pushing for the the U.S. Supreme Court to allow some restrictions on birthright citizenship even as legal battles continue over President Donald Trump’s orders to end what ...

Congress ratified the 14th Amendment in July 1868, soon after the Civil War ... It wasn’t until 1924, for example, that Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the ...

However, it did not become part of the Constitution until 1868, when the 14th Amendment ... allow for a modified version where citizenship is automatically granted if one parent is a citizen ...