The Fourteenth Amendment
a. failed to confer any civil rights, including citizenship on the freedmen.
b. prohibited from federal and state office those former Confederates who as federal officeholders had once sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution.
c. guaranteed the freedmen the right to vote.
d. met all the political demands of the radical Republicans.
e. conferred a broad array of civil rights, including voting rights, on white women.
b
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