There are large concentrations of African Americans in West Texas because that is where white southerners and their slaves originally settled

Proponents of same-sex marriage argue that laws barring same-sex marriage violate the __________ Amendment of the Constitution

a. Fifth b. Fourteenth c. Ninth d. First

Which was an influential factor in the expansion of the federal bureaucracy during the post–Civil War era?

a. the expansion of voting rights to African American men b. the elimination of the spoils system c. a series of poor harvests and agricultural distribution problems d. the growing incidence of price fixing and other unfair business practices