Why has the Supreme Court interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment to mean that provisions of the Bill of Rights apply to the states?

answer; /// i believe that they became successful farmers; ///////////////

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.

a. by accepting the election of president abraham lincoln in 1860 and convincing other southern states to do the same

this is a false claim the emancipation proclamtion freed all slaves in the rebillion states