. Why was it important to Southerners to keep an equal number of senators from states without slavery and states with slavery in Congress? Mention the defeat of the Tallmadge Amendment in your answer.

.Why was slavery so important to the South

Read this excerpt from a constitutional amendment:Amendment XV.Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.1What occurred after this amendment was passed?A.Some southern states were exempt from having to enforce the amendment.B.Southern states passed laws that allowed them to deny African Americans voting rights.C.African Americans across the nation enjoyed the right to vote.D.The army was used to ensure enforcement of the amendment across the South.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Read this excerpt from the Twenty-Fourth Amendment:Section 1.The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.3What problem did this amendment solve?A.Southern states prevented African Americans from voting by charging them to do so.B.Difficult literacy tests meant that voters were not sure how much to pay to vote.C.African American voters did not have to pay to vote, while white voters did.D.States could not conduct elections because they funded them with

What did Congress require from each former Confederate state before they were readmitted to the Union?Group of answer choicesabolishment of the Black Codes and suppression of white terror groupsRepublican controlled state legislatures and ratification of the 13th AmendmentState constitutions with male suffrage and ratification of the 14th Amendmentfree public education for black children and voting rights for freedmen

The South reacted in which of the following ways, when Lincoln was elected president in 1860? (pick 2)A.accepted the results and wanted to work on healing the nationB.several states seceded and formed the Confederate States of AmericaC.elected their own president Jefferson Davis and acknowledged the rights for each state to have slaveryD.demanded a recount and second election, where Lincoln lost