Question

how did southern states respond to the ratification of the 14th and 15th amendments? by shutting down remaining offices of freedmans bureau by creating a segregated public education system by imposing requirements designed to deny blacks the right to vote by forcing blacks to work as tenant farmers

Explanation:

The 14th Amendment granted equal protection and citizenship, and the 15th Amendment granted Black men the right to vote. Southern states responded by creating "Jim Crow" laws and literacy tests, poll taxes, etc., (requirements) to disenfranchise Black voters. Option A: Shutting down Freedman’s Bureau was more about ending Reconstruction support, not direct response to 14th/15th Amendments. Option B: Segregated education was part of Jim Crow but not the direct response to voting rights (15th) or citizenship (14th) amendments’ intent to empower. Option D: Forcing tenant farming (sharecropping) was economic oppression, not a direct response to these amendments’ ratification. Option C directly targets denying the voting right granted by the 15th Amendment.

Answer:

C. By imposing requirements designed to deny blacks the right to vote