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Dick's Guide to
The Fourteenth Amendment
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The Fourteenth Amendment gave blacks rights and, also, established that the federal government had supreme rights over the states, a concept that had not been included in the Constitution. All persons born in the USA were citizens of their state of birth and the USA. No state could abridge the rights of anyone -- or deprive anyone of life, liberty and property -- without due process of law. The fourteenth amendment also repudiated confederate debts and forbade service in congress to former confederate leaders. But, the southern states would not accept the 14th Amendment and the 3/4th's majority could not be achieved for its passage. Johnson decided to take this issue to the voters in the 1866 congressional elections. He lost, and Republicans gained won more than 2/3's of all congressional seats.
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Acts
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Takes Charge of Reconstruction
The Fifteen
Amendment
Black
Republicans, Scalawags, Carpetbaggers, Sharecropping and White Backlash
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