How did the Fourteenth Amendment address the status of formerly enslaved people? It called for them to be enslaved again. It required them to fill out special application forms if they wanted to become citizens. It allowed them to vote but did not require them to pay taxes. It granted them citizenship by stating that all people born in the United States were citizens.

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How did the Fourteenth Amendment address the status of formerly enslaved people? It called for them to be enslaved again. It required them to fill out special application forms if they wanted to become citizens. It allowed them to vote but did not require them to pay taxes. It granted them citizenship by stating that all people born in the United States were citizens.

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It granted them citizenship by stating that all people born in the United States were citizens.

After the thirteenth amendment abolished or ended slavery the fourteenth amendment gave the newly freed slaves US citizenship because they were born on US soil. This amendment still holds that any individual born in the US or it’s territories is a citizen.