14 AMENDMENT

WHAT IS THE 14?

• This amendment gives citizenship rights and protections laws to African American men.

FACTS

• Purposes in congress on June13,1866 vote 33:11
• Ratification on July 28, 1868

VOTE TOTALS

• 28 states voted
• Connecticut,New Hampshire,Tennessee,New Jersey ,Oregon ,Vermont ,New York,Ohio, Illinois, West Virginia, Michigan, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, Indiana, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, South Carolina
• Minnesota – January 16, 1867

HOW IT AFFECTS

• It affects American citizens by because We stopped the segregation.
• It affects me because so I treat all people equally.

Plessy v. Ferguson (18 May 1896)

• The Louisiana legislature had passed a law requiring black and white residents to ride separate
• Plessy argued that they violated the 13th and 14th Amendments by treating black Americans different to whites
• Plessy lost in Louisiana. It went to Supreme Court. They said if the places were equal for both it was part of the 14th

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