The Fourteenth Amendment, as an integral part of Reconstruction, was intended to serve two constituencies-first, African Americans in the South, and second ______.

A. southern capitalists, including plantation owners
B. abolitionists in the North
C. the Republican majority in Washington, D.C.
D. the state legislatures that constructed Jim Crow laws

Answer: C

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