What effect did the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, have on former slaves?
a. recognized them as three-fifths of a person in the determination of representation in the U.S. House of Representatives
b. granted them citizenship
c. upheld slavery as an institution in the southern states
d. gave the right to state governments to determine if slavery is legal within their borders
e. granted reparations for their former enslavement
Question -2-The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, granted what right?
a. the right of free speech for all citizens
b. the right of all women to vote
c. citizenship for Native Americans
d. the right of any citizen to vote regardless of race or previous condition of servitude
e. the right of any citizen to vote regardless of how much property is owned
Question -3-What was the primary ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)?
a. It lowered the voting age for all citizens to eighteen years old.
b. It ruled that a state could legally secede from the union.
c. It ruled that slaves were property and they had no rights and could never become legal citizens of the United States.
d. It gave women the right to vote.
e. It took away the powers of the state government to regulate voting.
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