Step 2: Milkweed. Monarch butterflies lay their eggs on milkweed and the caterpillars eat milkweed. If you are going to find monarch butterfly eggs, you have to first find milkweed. Fortunately, ...
Congress - 14th Amendment 2nd section. Edward Windsor Kemble, artist. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to âall persons born or naturalized in the United States,â which included former slaves recently freed.
The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment. Before the 14th Amendment, citizenship was granted by states, and subsequently recognized by the federal government. Although the 13th Amendment officially ended slavery in 1865, it was not sufficient for the purpose of making freed slaves citizens of the United States.wo years later in 1868, the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment would be closely patterned on the citizenship declaration of the 1866 Act. Both intended to exclude from birthright citizenship at least some U.S.-born persons where a competing claim of subjectship or citizenship existed.