What did the Supreme Court rule in United States v. Cruikshank (1876) ?
A) Business monopolies did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment because they were an essential component of the economy.
B) African Americans were not citizens because the founding fathers had not envisioned them as equals to white Americans.
C) The equal protection and due process requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment only applied to states, not to individuals.
D) Women were not included in the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment, even though the language of the amendment had not specified either way.
E) The Ku Klux Klan Act was unconstitutional because it singled out a specific group of Americans in its restrictions.
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