The Fourteenth Amendment

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The Fourteenth Amendment

• Christopher Capozzola
• MIT
• The Education Collaborative
• December 15 2010

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The Legacies of War
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A New National Identity

• The United States ___________ located in North
  America.

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Abraham Lincoln with malice toward none and
charity toward all
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Andrew Johnson Presidential Reconstruction
(1865-1867)
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Congressional Reconstruction Thaddeus Stevens
and Charles Sumner
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Freedmens Bureau, 1865
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Civil Rights Bill of 1866
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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, 1868
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Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

• All persons born or naturalized in the United
  States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
  are citizens of the United States and of the
  State wherein they reside.

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Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

• No State shall make or enforce any law which
  shall abridge the privileges or immunities of
  citizens of the United States nor shall any
  State deprive any person of life, liberty, or
  property, without due process of law nor deny to
  any person within its jurisdiction the equal
  protection of the laws.

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Birthright CitizenshipElk v. Wilkins (1884)
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Birthright CitizenshipU.S. v. Wong Kim Ark
(1898)
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Birthright CitizenshipPlyler v. Doe (1982)
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Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field (1865)
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Winslow Homer,Prisoners from the Front (1866)
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Winslow Homer,The Bright Side (1865)
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Winslow Homer,The Carnival (1877)
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Winslow Homer, A Visit from the Old Mistress
(1876)
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Winslow Homer,The Cotton Pickers (1876)
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Winslow Homer,Long Branch (1869)
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Winslow Homer,Sunday Morning in Virginia (1877)
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Legacies of Reconstruction

• From Status to Contract
• Political Division by Region
• Southern Economic Stagnation
• Exhaustion of Reform Energy

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The Ambiguities of Reconstruction

• Nothing renders society more restless than a
  revolution but half accomplished.
• --Carl Schurz