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AssignmentMultiple Choice

African Americans and Reconstruction

Question 1 • (AG Q4) American History 8: 25-26 (AHostetler)

The Fourteenth Amendment said

Answer
A
that all African Americans could vote.
B
that all African Americans were citizens.
C
that African Americans could now apply to be citizens.
D
that African American men were now citizens.

Explanation

The Fourteenth Amendment established that all people born or naturalized in the United States were citizens, including African Americans. It did not grant voting rights; that protection came later through the Fifteenth Amendment. So the correct choice is “that all African Americans were citizens.”

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