What did the passage of the fifteenth amendment during reconstruction accomplish? a. it barred discrimination in hiring procedures. b. it prohibited slavery in the united states. c. it outlawed voting discrimination based on race. d. it blocked states from denying any citizen equal rights.

4. how does the speaker's comparison of sinners to aninsect (paragraph 7) contribute to the central idea of thetext? o a it emphasizes the negative view god has ofsinners and how inconsequential they are to him.o b it stresses the connection that exists between allof god's creatures, whether they be human orinsect.o c it suggests that sinners can change for the better,as insects are known to go throughtransformations.o d it portrays sinners as being just as prevalentaround the earth as the wide variety of insects.