Read the excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. All persons born or naturalized in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. The citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment:
is important because it limited the number of people who can become citizens.
gave everyone free passports if they became citizens.
was the first time the Constitution defined what a citizen is.
restricted freed enslaved people from becoming citizen