The correct answer is segregation. The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine, which allowed for the continuation and legal backing of segregation laws across the United States for many years.
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
options:
poll taxes
poll taxes
segregation
segregation
literacy tests
literacy tests
slavery
2 answers
Which of the following strategies were used to disenfranchise black Georgians in the early 1900s?
options:
Poll tax, literacy test, white primary
Poll tax, literacy test, white primary
Poll tax, white primary, voting rights act
Poll tax, white primary, voting rights act
General elections, Fifteenth Amendment, poll tax
General elections, Fifteenth Amendment, poll tax
Grandfather clause, white primary, Fifteenth Amendment
Grandfather clause, white primary, Fifteenth Amendment
options:
Poll tax, literacy test, white primary
Poll tax, literacy test, white primary
Poll tax, white primary, voting rights act
Poll tax, white primary, voting rights act
General elections, Fifteenth Amendment, poll tax
General elections, Fifteenth Amendment, poll tax
Grandfather clause, white primary, Fifteenth Amendment
Grandfather clause, white primary, Fifteenth Amendment
1 answer