What did the supreme court's interpretation of the fourteenth amendment allow the court to do?
a. rule that violent criminals do not have due process rights
b. require state governments to provide bill of rights protections to their citizens
c. incorporate state laws into the u. s. constitution
d. determine whether the amendment was constitutional
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The correct answer is B) require state governments to provide Bill of Rights protections to their citizens.

The Supreme Court's interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment allows the Court to require state governments to provide Bill of Rights protections to their citizens.

Ratified on July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all the people born or naturalized in the US, including former black slaves. Although in the beginning, the Amendment did not include the states, and the Supreme Court ruled that the Amendment had not to be extended to the states. So during this period of Reconstruction, it was difficult for African Americans to plenty benefited from the Amendment

was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all americans. the era has had a lasting impact on united states society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. in the south violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled southern white democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the south

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