It granted them citizenship by stating that all people born in the United States were citizens.
After the thirteenth amendment abolished or ended slavery the fourteenth amendment gave the newly freed slaves US citizenship because they were born on US soil. This amendment still holds that any individual born in the US or it’s territories is a citizen.
Barack Obama was one... ;(
The correct answer here is A.
John Jacob Astor was born in 1763 to father who was a butcher so he was not very wealthy. He amassed his fortune by trading fur through that business he became one of the most wealthy people in the United States. Astor traded sandalwood, teas and of course fur with China which turned out very profitable for him.
To me, this quote sounds something like civil rights leader Malcolm X would say, or someone from the Black Panther Party. Malcolm X believed in black supremacy and thought that black people should use any method possible to be equal to whites. The Black Panther Party, however, believed that blacks needed to take control and the would do any means possible to achieve this.