Which statement best completes the diagram? (apex) a. courts refuse to use strict scrutiny in cases involving minorities. b. racial segregation is strengthened by the decision in brown v. board of education. c. affirmative action programs benefiting minorities are allowed to operate without limits. d. laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are ruled unconstitutional.

The correct answer is D) laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are ruled unconstitutional.

The statement that best completes the diagram is "laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are ruled unconstitutional."

The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to the people born in the United States or naturalized in the US. That included former slaves. The equal protection clause is part of the 14th Amendment that expresses that any state should deny the protection of the equal protection of the law to any person.

Then, many Supre Court Case in the 1970s had to deal with sexual orientation and disability cases that were included in the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th AMendment to the United States Constitution.

3. republican abraham lincoln

4. south carolina

5. charleston, south carolina

6. confederates

7. minie bullet - made defense even safer, it spun faster, traveled further and was five times more accurate than any single-man weapon. able to kill at half a mile, it was the largest contributor to battle wounds

      or the the gatling gun - the most successful of several rapid-fire guns that were born before the war. its efficiency in killing only made war more deadly.

idk which one u learned about. pick one.

8. the south was fighting to maintain its way of life, whereas the north was fighting to maintain a union. so they had will, and the north were fighing on unfamiliar territory

9. union had the large population, people to fight in the war and work in the factories to make war materials, industrial base, the factories to make these war materials. the union also was wealthier than the confederacy and could finance the war.

10. stonewall jackson

11. chancellorsville

12. gettysburg

13. sherman

some of these might be wrong but i tried my best.   : )