<span> the 15th president </span><span>James Buchanan
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The fourteenth Amendment provides equal protection for Americans. This means that no matter your age, race, gender, religion, etc, you will be treated equally by the government. Another one is immunity. This basically means that the states cannot take away certain rights we get from the Constitution. There are numerous rights the fourteenth Amendment give us and those are just two.
I think it's because france, germany and other nations were competing for overseas territory in africa and other places.
