Congress required Southern states to draft new constitutions guaranteeing African-American men the right to vote. The constitutions also had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted African Americans equal protection under the law.
<span>The information in the sentence below tells us that the census takes place every "ten years," since in this case the word "decennial" means ten years. </span>
In what has come to be called his "Court-packing scheme", FDR had proposed that congress increased the size of the Supreme Court to a maximum of 15 members. This had failed.
