In general, during the 1870s, Supreme Court decisions "<span>a. restricted the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment" since many of them ruled in favor of states that tried to restrict the rights of the newly-freed slaves. </span>
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I’m not 100% sure but I think the answer your looking for is that they gained more than 500,000 square miles of land
Guilds:<span>Professional organizations of merchants or artisans
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Curtsey :an act of respect in which women slightly bow down
<span>Dowry: money, goods, and property that a woman brings to her husband in marriage
</span><span>. mercantile: a word relating to trade, merchants, and their characteristics</span>
B. Other two don't make sense.
