The 14th amendment of the United States Constitution was ratified in 1868 and grants the guarantee to all citizens of an equal protection of the laws. This amendment grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US, also the former slaves.
Question: How did the 14th Amendment help the process of granting former slaves citizenship and the rights that had been previously denied to them?
Answer: The 14th Amendment defined a citizen as a person born or naturalized in the United States, regardless of color.
It was to Parliament that the First Continental Congress appealed in their Declaration of American Rights and Grievances, since it was Parliament which was levying the taxes that they despised so heavily.
The main import was slaves but their was also other imports like gold silk and many other thing
