Apentix/AP US History/Unit 5: Period 5 (1844-1877)/Question
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The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) most directly responded to which of the following?

A.State laws and practices, including the Black Codes, that denied freedpeople equal treatment
B.The refusal of southern states to pay Confederate war debts
C.Federal occupation of the South by Union troops
D.Northern resistance to black migration

Explanation

Core Concept

The amendment established birthright citizenship and barred states from denying due process or equal protection. It constitutionalized the principle of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

Correct Answer

AState laws and practices, including the Black Codes, that denied freedpeople equal treatment

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