The federal government began to apply the Bill of Rights to the states __________.

A. after it was discovered that jailers were imprisoning prisoners without reading them their rights
B. after the Slaughterhouse Cases of 1873
C. during the Reconstruction Era
D. after the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
E. after former slaves were being denied the right to vote in the South

Ans: D. after the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

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