At that point, however, the Fourteenth Amendment had been approved by no former Confederate state except for Tennessee and by only two of the five Border States—Missouri and West Virginia.
The only Southern state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment was Tennessee. The amendment was adopted in 1868 and granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves.
14th Amendment Site. Ratification Process: The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified by Ohio on January 4; New York on January 10; Kansas on January 11; Illinois on January 15; West Virginia, Michigan, and Minnesota on January 16; Maine on January 19; Nevada on January 22; Indiana on January 23, and Missouri on January 25.
14th Amendment - Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt | Constitution Center.
Amendments to this Constitution shall be initiated by the Diet, through a concurring vote of two-thirds or more of all the members of each House and shall thereupon be submitted to the people for ratification, which shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of all votes cast thereon, at a special referendum or ...
Ratification Process: The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified by Ohio on January 4; New York on January 10; Kansas on January 11; Illinois on January 15; West Virginia, Michigan, and Minnesota on January 16; Maine on January 19; Nevada on January 22; Indiana on January 23, and Missouri on January 25.
Constitutional Amendments – Amendment 14 – “Citizenship, Equal Protection, Apportionment, and War Debts” Amendment Fourteen to the Constitution – the second of the three Reconstruction Amendments – was ratified on July 9, 1868.
New York: July 26, 1788. North Carolina: November 21, 1789.