How did southern blacks lose rights in the years after the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments?
a. new amendments later limited black southerners’ legal status.
b. few black southerners took advantage of their newfound freedoms.
c. some white southerners used state legislation, segregation, and violence to limit the freedoms of blacks.
d. black southerners did not lose any rights during these years.

native americans suffered high rates of poverty and unemployment.

during the late 1960s and early 1970sthe need for political militancy grew among the native americans. throughout the 1960s, they had been the nation's poorest minority group, the most deprived group, according to practically every socioeconomic measure. in 1970, the indian unemployment rate was 10 times the national average, and 40 percent of the native american people were below the poverty line.

roosevelt essentially took the opposite approach as hoover in taking on the great depression. herbert hoover thought that america and its economy could naturally recover from the depression in due course, so he adamantly restrained the federal government from intervening on behalf of the people affected. on the other hand, roosevelt dramatically increased employment by expanding the federal government and establishing agencies that would aid in relieving some of the country's worst problems.