Question

Read this excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment. Then answer the question that follows.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. 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 two conclusions can you draw from the excerpt?

A.The amendment guaranteed full citizenship to anyone born in the United States.
B.The amendment provided voting rights to anyone born in the United States.
C.The amendment banned states from passing laws that discriminated against any race.
D.The amendment provided voting rights to the recently freed slaves in the South.

Answer 1

1 and 3 are the correct answers.

Answer 2

The conclusions drawn from the excerpt about Fourteenth Amendment includes:

• its guaranteed full citizenship to anyone born in the United States
• its banned states from passing laws that discriminated against any race.

What is the Fourteenth Amendment?

This is a legislation that granted citizenship and equal rights to the African Americans and the slaves that have been emancipated after the American Civil War.

From the excerpt given, it is drawn that the Amendment guaranteed full citizenship to anyone born in the United States and banned states from passing laws that discriminated against any race.

Therefore, the Option A and C is correct.

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