One of the broadest Civil War Amendments was the Fourteenth Amendment, which provided
a. forgiveness for all Confederates.
b. an opportunity for freed slaves to sue the states in which they were enslaved.
c. full U.S. and state citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States as well as guaranteed equal protection of the laws.
d. for segregation of the races but equal treatment of both.
e. restitution to the freed slaves.
ANS: C
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