Author Question: The Fifteenth Amendment provided that a. the Confederate states were to be placed under martial ... (Read 55 times)

WhattoUnderstand · **on:** Jul 9, 2018

The Fifteenth Amendment provided that

a. the Confederate states were to be placed under martial law.
b. representation in the House of Representatives would be reduced in proportion to the number of male citizens that were denied the right to vote.
c. slavery was illegal throughout the United States.
d. the freed slaves were citizens of the United States and of the state in which they resided.
e. no one could be denied the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Question 2

Concern over the constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 led to the

a. impeachment of President Johnson.
b. Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and 1868.
c. passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
d. establishment of the Ku Klux Klan.
e. Dred Scott decision.