1. Why did the Republicans in Congress feel that the Fourteenth Amendment was necessary?

Question

1. Why did the Republicans in Congress feel that the Fourteenth Amendment was necessary?

a. They worried the wealthy southern planters would not comply with the Civil Rights Act.
b. They worried that President Johnson would not enforce the Civil Rights Act
c. They worried that the South would secede from the Union again
d. They worried that the Supreme Court would find the Civil Rights Act unconstitutional

Answer 1

The correct answer is d. They worried that the Supreme Court would find the Civil Rights Act unconstitutional. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted to ensure that the important provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would be constitutional and to provide a constitutional guarantee of the civil rights of freed slaves.