Why was the Fourteenth Amendment significant to the civil rights movement? A. It guaranteed all former slaves a plot of land for farming or an adequate job for a steady income. B. It stated that "separate but equal" facilities for African Americans were unconstitutional, starting the process of integration in the South. C. It ensured that states guaranteed all people born or naturalized in the United States the rights granted by the Bill of Rights. D. It guaranteed all minority groups, including women, Latinos, American Indians, and African Americans, the right to vote.

"a shortage of traditional labor created new opportunities in the workplace. a major cause of the internment of japanese americans during world war ii was. racial prejudice. in the early 1940's, the "destroyers-for-military-bases deal" with great britain and the lend-lease act were evidence that the united states."

president thomas jefferson hoped that the embargo act of 1807 would the united states by demonstrating to britain and france their dependence on american goods, convincing them to respect american neutrality and stop impressing american seamen. instead, the act had a devastating effect on american trade.