Question

Which was an effect of the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?
(1 point)
• It reduced the frequency of racial violence in the South.
• It caused increased migrations of people from the North.
• It weakened and outlawed Jim Crow laws in the North.
•It reaffirmed and strengthened Jim Crow laws in the South.

Answer 1

During Reconstruction the 14th Amendment was passed in 1868 guaranteeing that no state could take away the rights of United States citizens. In spite of this amendment, Southern states did take away black people's rights as citizens.
Homer Plessy, a black person, was arrested on a railroad train and his case was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. The 1896 court decision in Plessy v Ferguson became the legal basis for the next 60 years. The court ruled against Plessy and provided a legal backing for (1 point)
• poll taxes
• segregation
• literacy tests
• slavery

Answer 2

The effect of the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson was that **it reaffirmed and strengthened Jim Crow laws in the South.** This 1896 decision upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, effectively legitimizing the systemic discrimination that characterized Jim Crow laws.