How did the reconstruction amendments change the role of government? a. the states gained protection from an overbearing national government. b. the presidents who immediately followed lincoln became even more powerful and active than he had been during the civil war. c. it set the stage for the federal government to be the protector of individual freedoms. d. the supreme court’s role would be diminished. e. the state governments became the only entity that could award citizenship.

d. The Supreme Court’s role would be diminished.

Explanation:

The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments are the amendments adopted by the constitution of the United States and called reconstruction amendments because they were adopted at the time of reconstruction following the civil war. These amendments abolished slavery, gave equal rights to all citizens and prohibits discrimination of the voting rights. However, the state laws like Jim Crow laws successively eroded the spirit of the Constitution and the Supreme Court not only failed to restrict these laws but sometimes itself supported these decisions.