What was the outcome of the Supreme Court ruling in Minor v. Happersett (1874) ?
A) This decision that women's suffrage was not a right inherent in the Fourteenth Amendment encouraged women to use more direct forms of political agitation to secure the vote.
B) Once this challenge to the ways of preventing African Americans from voting was denied, the use of terror increased in the form of lynchings, night riding, and bombings.
C) The use of the Alabama literacy test was approved so that African Americans could not realistically vote in the state until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s.
D) The Supreme Court finally decided that race was a suspect classification that demanded strict judicial scrutiny.
E) It was the first time that the courts recognized the term "sexual harassment."
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