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cdr_15 · **on:** Jul 9, 2018

One of the broadest Civil War Amendments was the Fourteenth Amendment, which provided

a. forgiveness for all Confederates.
b. an opportunity for freed slaves to sue the states in which they were enslaved.
c. full U.S. and state citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States as well as guaranteed equal protection of the laws.
d. for segregation of the races but equal treatment of both.
e. restitution to the freed slaves.

Question 2

Another Civil War Amendment was the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed

a. the right to vote regardless of race.
b. the right to vote regardless of race or gender.
c. the right to veterans benefits regardless of which side the veteran served on in the Civil War.
d. the abolition of slavery only in new states that were added to the Union after the Civil War.
e. prohibition against Jim Crow laws and racial segregation.