In United States V

question 106

Multiple Choice

In United States v. Cruikshank the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment

• A) left the power to protect the equal rights of citizens solely to the states.
• B) did not guarantee that all southern public facilities would be integrated.
• C) protected African Americans in the full exercise of their civil rights.
• D) guaranteed the vote to all property-holding African Americans.

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