Which group of people was most directly affected by the Fourteenth Amendment?A.African AmericansB.WomenC.Naturalized citizensD.Children

The group of people most directly affected by the Fourteenth Amendment were A. African Americans.

Here's why:

The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted in 1868, during the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War. This amendment was one of the Reconstruction Amendments, which were aimed at establishing equal civil and legal rights for African Americans.

The Fourteenth Amendment specifically granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States," which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. It also forbade 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 the laws."

Therefore, while the Fourteenth Amendment impacts all American citizens in some way, it most directly affected African Americans as it granted them citizenship and equal protection under the law, rights they had been denied under slavery.