__ 210. What did the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do? A. It gave blacks citizenship. B. It gave blacks their freedom. C. It gave blacks the right to vote. D. It gave blacks the right to own property. __ 211. The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.Constitution was passed in response to the A. adoption of laws known as Black Codes by the southern states. B. rising violence from terrorist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan. C. refusal of white southerners to provide freedmen with land and farm animals. D. refusal of some southern states to adopt constitutional provisions calling for an end to slavery.