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.
Question 2
In the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, the Supreme Court concluded that
A) black codes were constitutional.
B) segregation was constitutional.
C) states, not individuals, were prohibited from discriminating under the 14th Amendment.
D) Abraham Lincoln's proclamation ending slavery was unconstitutional.
E) citizenship rights of black Americans could not be denied because of the color of their skin.
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