AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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Acceptable but Jim Crowe laws or not
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Acceptable provided that separate facilities are equal
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as “separate but equal".
Detailed explanation-2: -Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for Black people.
Detailed explanation-3: -7–1 decision for Ferguson The Court held that the state law was constitutional. In an opinion authored by Justice Henry Billings Brown, the majority upheld state-imposed racial segregation.