WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Jim Crow laws ____ Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS
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Jim Crow laws ____ Plessy v. Ferguson
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Gerrymandering laws ____ Plessy v. Ferguson
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Women’s suffrage laws ____ Schenck v. United States
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Plessy v. Ferguson was important because it essentially established the constitutionality of racial segregation. As a controlling legal precedent, it prevented constitutional challenges to racial segregation for more than half a century until it was finally overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brownv.
Detailed explanation-3: -The underlying case began in 1892 when Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man, deliberately boarded a “whites-only” train car in New Orleans. By boarding the whites-only car, Plessy violated Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890, which required “equal, but separate” railroad accommodations for white and non-white passengers.
Detailed explanation-4: -The decision of Plessy v. Ferguson ensured that African Americans would face legal segregation for years. Jim Crow segregation laws compelled Plessy to protest segregated trains.