What rights did the fourteenth amendment protect?

Answer 1

It prohibits states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws.

Answer 2

With the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment (ratified 1865), the Confederate states sought readmission to the Union and to Congress. Under Article I, section 2 of the Constitution, a slave had been counted as three‐fifths of a person for purposes of representation. Because of the abolition of slavery, Southern states expected a substantial increase in their representation in the House of Representatives. The Union, having won the war, feared it might lose the peace.

Answer 3

It granted citizenship to those born in the U.S.

Answer 4

Search and seizure, self-incrimination and seizure of private property for governmental use.

Answer 5

the federal government the states