STEP 1: In black ink, please complete the forms in this packet with instructions below. The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of primary source materials associated with the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.Guiding Questions: - Why is the 14th Amendment significant? - What factors motivated the push for, and ratification of, the 14th Amendment? The 14th Amendment wrote the Declaration of Independence's promise of freedom and equality into the Constitution. It transformed the Constitution forever. The 14 th Amendment to the US Constitution provides that, with few discrete exceptions, people born in the United States are citizens of this country. 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Primary Documents in American History. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1868) granted African Americans the rights of citizenship. Black voter registration, particularly in the South, was very low, and in Mississippi only 6.7 percent of eligible blacks were registered to vote in 1964.