The most traumatic era in the entire history of Roman Catholicism, some have argued, was the period from the middle of the 14th century to the middle of the 16th.
Explanation:
This was the time when Protestantism, through its definitive break with Roman Catholicism, arose to take its place on the Christian map.
The 14th amendment granted former slaves citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States which included former slaves who had just been freed after the civil war.