In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
a. African Americans could be denied the right to vote.
b. segregation was always unconstitutional.
c. separate but equal public schools and facilities were constitutional under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
d. the Fourteenth Amendment protections of equal protection applied only to African Americans who could prove that an individual segregated black school or facility was unequal to comparable white public school or public facility.
e. African Americans born as slaves could not sue in federal court.
Question 2
Shays's Rebellion convinced many Americans of the need for
a. lower taxes.
b. granting long-delayed bonuses to Revolutionary War veterans.
c. a vigilante effort by westerners to halt the Indian threat.
d. a stronger central government.
e. a weaker military presence in the West.
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