(SS.912.A.2.4)
The passage below is an excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens
of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due
process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws
This amendment was proposed by Congress in response to which of
the following?
A) the rise of violence against emancipated slaves
the passage of Black Codes throughout the South
the attempts of Democrats to limit the voting rights of African Americans
the emergence of white resistance to the civil rights movement
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