How Did the Fourteenth Amendment Effectively Nullify the Dred Scott

question 21

Multiple Choice

How did the Fourteenth Amendment effectively nullify the Dred Scott decision of 1857?

• A) It determined that states had the right to offer rights of citizenship to blacks.
• B) It legitimized marriages between blacks as well as interracial marriages.
• C) It extended equal protection and due process to all.
• D) It granted suffrage to black men twenty years or older.

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