Even though the devastation caused by the atomic bomb was tremendous, and had killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens, the Emperor refused to back down. Surrender in the Japanese culture is shunned very harshly as it made one cowardly.
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment<span> was ratified on July 9, 1868, which had </span>granted citizenship<span> to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included </span>former slaves<span> recently </span>freed<span>.</span>
