14th Amendment Dbq

On July 28, 1868 an amendment that guaranteed equality for everyone was ratified. The fourteenth Amendment supplied everyone who was born in the U.S. or a naturalized citizen that they would have equal freedoms along with everyone else. It also stated that a state can not take these rights away from anyone, and because of this I believed that the fourteenth Amendment has transformed american democracy.
The reason behind the civil war was that the north and the south disagreed with each other, mainly on slavery. That conflict was what struck the main idea for the fourteenth Amendment. In the mid 1800’s everyone was not equal, African Americans were considered less than white people. The fourteenth Amendment provided equal protection for all