Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era<span> in the United States of America was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent </span>black<span> citizens from </span>registering to vote<span> and voting. These measures were enacted by former </span>Confederate<span> states at the turn of the 20th century, and by Oklahoma upon statehood</span><span> although </span>not<span> by the </span>border slave states<span>. Their actions defied the intent of the </span>Fifteenth Amendment<span> to the </span>United States Constitution<span>, </span>ratified<span> in 1870, which was intended to protect the </span>suffrage<span> of </span>freedmen<span> after the </span>American Civil War<span>.</span>
Answer:
D. The compromise made all new territories free of slavery but
protected slavery where it existed
it is A to gain representation in government
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