14th Amendment

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were ratified during a transformation period after the Civil War that was known as ____________.

• age of Jackson

• the Antebellum era

• the Founding era

• Reconstruction era

What did the 14th Amendment do?

• Abolished slavery

• Wrote the promise of equality into the Constitution

• Granted Congress the power to pass an income tax

• Provided for the direct election of senators

Republicans in Congress thought a new amendment was necessary to protect African Americans from laws that denied them the rights of citizenship. These laws were known as the _____________.

• Black Codes

• White Codes

• Southern Codes

• Reconstruction Codes

According to Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, a person is a citizen of the United States and of the state wherein they reside if they __________.

• Pay their taxes on time

• Own property

• Live in the United States for 14 years

• Are born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof

Section 5 granted which of the following the power to enforce the promises of the 14th Amendment?

• Congress (national government)

• Local sheriffs only

• State legislatures

• State governors

On the issue of equality, the original Constitution ________.

• Said all men are created equal

• Was silent

• Went into great detail

• Contained the Equal Protection Clause

The infamous Dred Scott decision asserted that African Americans ___________.

• Could become citizens

• Were citizens if free

• Were not and could never be United States citizens

• Should petition for citizenship

The Supreme Court declared that Wong Kim Ark was an American citizen because______.

• His parents were diplomats

• He was 21 when he traveled to China

• He was born in America

• He had passed the citizenship test

The Privileges and Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment was effectively written out of the Constitution as a result of the Supreme Court decision in ___________.

• The Dred Scott Case

• The Slaughter-House Cases

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

What clause in the 14th Amendment was used in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) to end school segregation?

• Preamble

• Commerce Clause

• 10th Amendment

• Equal Protection Clause