SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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separate but equal
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legal
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constitutional (in accordance with the 14th Amendment)
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unconstitutional (a violation of the 14th Amendment)
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that separate accommodations based on race was constitutional. 58 years later in Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (1954) the court ruled that separate accommodations based on race were inherently unequal and so unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-2: -Plessy’s lawyers argued that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. Their theory failed, and the judge found that Louisiana could enforce this law insofar as it affected railroads within its boundaries. Plessy was convicted and fined. George Shiras, Jr.
Detailed explanation-3: -He agreed with a group of citizens who wanted to challenge unjust laws. As a test, Plessy violated the 1890 Louisiana Separate Car law. That means he agreed to break the law on purpose. The Separate Car law said that white citizens and black citizens had to ride in separate railroad cars.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1892, Homer Plessy, seven-eighths white, seated himself in the whites-only car and was arrested. He argued that Louisiana’s segregation law violated the 13th Amendment banning of slavery and the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.