Question

What was the major impact of the Fourteenth Amendment?
A. It required that people be treated equally by states.
B. It contained a declaration of rights that prohibited slavery.
C. It allowed only White men to be in the state legislature.
D. It required the use of a literacy test for voting.

Answer 1

A. It required that people be treated equally by states. The Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause guaranteed that states must treat individuals equally under the law.