What did the 14th Amendment do? a. Itabolsihed slavery. b. It gave African Americans citiizenship and guaranteed them equal prot
ection under the law. c. It ensured freedom of speech regardless of race. d. It guaranteed that states could never again secede from the Union. Please select the best answer from the choices provided
It grants citizenship to "all people born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War.
The Spanish-American War was an 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.