The choice that significantly undermined states' rights is ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, which limited the power of states to enact laws that discriminated against individuals, thereby restricting states' rights in significant ways.
Question 3(Multiple Choice Worth 1 points)
(MC)Which of the choices below significantly undermined states' rights?
passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
the secession of the Confederate states
the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision
ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
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