In perspective Dred Scott and the Fourteenth Amendment

In April 1866, the Congress passed a Civil Rights Act declaring that people born in the United States were to be considered citizens.

The bill was designed to extend citizenship protections to freed slaves. President Andrew Johnson promptly vetoed the law � only to have the Radical Republicans in Congress override him in one of the first great show

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