14th Amendment
What will be an ideal response?
African Americans got equal rights and were granted citizenship under the law. This was much needed because there was no reason why they were treated any different than whites and they deserved the same rights.
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Which of the following reflects a goal of the Black Codes?
a) separating the races in public places and facilities b) strengthening African American property rights c) funding schools for African American children d) eliminating vagrancy laws targeted at blacks
On April 4, 1968, a gunman named James Earl Ray assassinated ______________
A) Malcolm X B) Robert Kennedy C) Martin Luther King Jr. D) George Wallace
The Yellow Turbans were Chinese ________
A) scholar-gentry B) military leaders C) rebels D) merchants
The Wilson-Gorman Tariff called for which of the following?
A) ?Raising the rates on copper B) ?Increasing duties on sugar C) ?Supporting reciprocal trade with China D) ?Giving Hawaii favored nation status