(MC)How did lawmakers use the Fourteenth Amendment to justify the passage of Jim Crow laws ~
in the South?
O They claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to
United States.
the South because the territory was no longer part of the
• They argued
businesses.
that the Fourteenth Amendment applied only to the actions of state governments, not private individuals or
They argued that the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional because African
Americans were not legal citizens.
They claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment protected only the rights of African Americans living in the North.