The passage below is an excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Which statement explains why this amendment was adopted?

A) to extend voting rights to emancipated slaves

B) to protect the civil rights of African Americans

C) to guarantee states' rights to make their own laws

D) to prevent states from seeding from the Union

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B

Explanation:

The ratification of 14th amendment gave Congress the power to laws protecting civil rights.

The Equal Protection Clause is included in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause was enforced in 1868 and supports that no state shall refuse to any person within its jurisdiction “equal protection of the laws”.

in the declaration of independence, thomas jefferson announced that every human being has “certain unalienable rights,” among which are those to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of " hope i

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.