During the late nineteenth century, the equal protection clause was a. not implemented because of a lack of tax revenue. b. severely limited in scope by the Supreme Court. c. more strongly defended by individual states than by the federal government. d. ruled unconstitutional.

Option-(B): Severely limited in scope by the Supreme Court inside the United States of America.

Explanation:

It has been always the concern for the system and the top officials of any state to provide equal or basic rights for each of the individuals inside the country or we can say the territory in which the individuals live in, while there is always some difficulties for some of the communities irrespective of the number of individuals belonging to that very community.As, for the people inside the US during the late nineteenth century there were some difficulties faced by the African Americans as there was some reason due to which the Supreme Court was not able implement the rules which were required for providing the basic rights to all the individuals  and giving way to peace and prosperity to flourish inside the region.