RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Technical barriers to voter registrations were eliminated.
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New practices of representative apportionment were created.
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Civil liberties were applied at the local level.
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New criteria for citizenship were applied nationwide.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A major provision of the 14th Amendment was to grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ” thereby granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following statements best describes the impact of the Fourteenth Amendment? The Fourteenth Amendment forced state governments to abide by almost every provision in the Bill of Rights, but the process took over 100 years.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following statements is true of the Fourteenth Amendment? It prohibited all states from denying equal protection of the laws to any person.