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Drew Scott Vs Standford
Dred Scott was taken into a free state by his slave owner and sued but but did not go through because Scott was not a citizen of any state for purposes of the diversity jurisdiction because the Constitution implicitly limited both state and national citizenship on racial grounds. -
Free African Americans now American citizans
In 1860 when Abraham Lincon took office they decided that all free African Americans were now American citizens -
Congress First session
Congress held the very first session in 1865 -
14th amendment passes
Passed by the Senate on June 8, 1866, and ratified two years later, on July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with equal protection under the laws -
Civil Right act of 1866
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens of the United States and the state in which they lived, thereby affirming a rule of citizenship by birth that did not depend on race. -
14th amendement reconstruction 1866
it granted both national and state citizenship -
Congress extends eligibility to naturalize from white people to include African Americans
The 1870s Naturalism Act limited the ability to naturalize to white people and persons of African descent -
People of Chinese decent cannot become American Citizans
This rule made it extremely hard for and Chinese person to come to the United States -
Married in Citizanship
any white male who married a foreign women she was granted us citizenship