The Slaughterhouse Cases of 1873 Are Significant Because the Supreme

question 96

Multiple Choice

The Slaughterhouse cases of 1873 are significant because the Supreme Court

• A) ruled that where civil courts were functioning, civilians could not be tried by military courts or commissions.
• B) argued that Congress had the power to ensure each state a republican form of government.
• C) chipped away at the Fourteenth Amendment by saying it only protected the basic rights of national citizenship, not rights that fell to citizens by virtue of their state citizenship.
• D) decided that the Fifteenth Amendment did not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone.
• E) ruled that congressional Reconstruction governments were unconstitutional because they had been forced upon the south.

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