(mc)what was one of the consequences of the ratification of the fourteenth amendment? voter turnout rates increased for several decades. states could not deprive any citizen of due process of the law. the women's rights movement was given new energy. states gained the right to secede from the union peacefully.

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The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution  ratified in 1868  granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States including former enslaved people and guaranteed all citizens  equal protection of the laws. One of three amendments passed during the Reconstruction era to abolish slavery.

It strengthened the federal government's power over the States  particularly regarding State treatment of citizens. It provided the legal framework for the civil rights movement relating to racial discrimination. That movement in turn gave momentum to other movements involving gender, age and physical handicaps.

The 14th amendment granted citizenship to  all people born or naturalized in the United States. It also guaranteed all citizens the equal protection of the laws. This meant that state governments could not treat some citizens as less equal than others.

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