What does it mean to say that the Fourteenth Amendment is one of the Reconstruction Amendments? Check all that apply.

The Reconstruction Amendments were adopted after the Civil War to address slavery, citizenship, and the rights of formerly enslaved people. The Fourteenth Amendment established citizenship for people born or naturalized in the United States and required equal protection under the law, so A and D apply. It did not cause the Civil War, and it came after the Civil War—not as part of the aftermath of the American Revolution.

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