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Which action under Reconstruction offi cially overturned the Dred Scott

decision?
(A) Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan
(B) Johnson’s Reconstruction plan
(C) The Th irteenth Amendment
(D) The Fourteenth Amendment
(E) The Fifteenth Amendment

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User Porg
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It would be "(D) The Fourteenth Amendment" that officially overturned the Dred Scott decision, since this amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States, which included former slaves.
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User Vishnu Kanwar
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