The Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment ________

question 58

Multiple Choice

The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment ________.

• A) prohibited slavery
• B) quickly established the social and political equality of former slaves in the South
• C) prevented former Confederate states from adopting laws that discriminated against African Americans
• D) eventually provided a constitutional basis for the federal government to eliminate legal segregation in the South
• E) has had few consequences for the development of American federalism

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