alleryStart learning →Which was the only southern state legislature that did not refuse to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment?
AVirginia
BTennessee
CGeorgia
DLouisiana
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Tennessee
1. The Fourteenth Amendment declared all persons born or naturalized in the United States to be citizens.
2. All the southern state legislatures, with the exception of Tennessee, refused to ratify it, some unanimously.
3. The refusals pushed Congress toward the Reconstruction Act of March 1867.
4. Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana all sat among the refusing states.
_Source: "An Outline of American History" (USIA, 1990, public domain), Ch 5 "Sectional Conflict"_
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