Author Question: In regard to civil rights, the Fourteenth Amendment a. greatly expanded the federal government's ... (Read 48 times)

xroflmao · **on:** Aug 8, 2018

In regard to civil rights, the Fourteenth Amendment

a. greatly expanded the federal government's powers and limited the authority of state governments.
b. extended citizenship to Native Americans (Indians).
c. reduced constitutional protection of minority rights.
d. limited the power of the federal government and expanded the authority of state governments.
e. gave blacks the right to vote.

Question 2

Which of the following is characteristic of the post-Civil War southern labor system?

a. Black workers preferred working in gangs as they had done under slavery.
b. The new system of sharecropping evolved.
c. Foreign immigrants were brought in to replace slave laborers.
d. Most ex-slaves purchased land and often employed their former masters.
e. The economy quickly recovered from the ravages of war.