Which statement does not describe a reason for the decline of the roman empire?
a.
budget deficits caused by low taxes on roman citizens led to increased public debt and topple the central government.
b.
a series of brutal and incompetent emperors squandered huge sums and led to public disgust with the imperial government.
c.
germanic tribes, parthians, and north africans pressed attacks against the empire's frontiers from all sides.
d.
roman troops returning from the middle east brought a plague into the capital that killed up to 10 percent of the city's population.

"neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the united states, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." - the thirteenth amendment to the united states constitution, 1865 which statement describes the effect that the thirteenth amendment had on american society? a) male freedmen were given the right to vote. b) slavery was made illegal in the united states. c) ex-slaves were given united states citizenship. d) southern states were no longer allowed to use convicts as labor.