Plessy v. Ferguson

What was Plessy v. Ferguson?

• An all white ice cream shop

• The name of the Supreme Court Decision that established racial segregation.

• The great prize fight of 1896

• The name of the Supreme Court decision that outlawed "separate but equal"

"separate but equal" allowed states to

• separate people based on race

• keep tax money separate from income tax money

• forced equal standards of dog food for all dogs no matter the breed

• seperate people based on age

Homer Plessy broke what law?

• The eqaual rights law

• The Black Train Law

• The Separate Car Act

• The first-class passenger act

Why did Plessy break the law?

• To see what would happen to the white folks on the train

• to start a fight

• to show that blacks should not be able to ride in white tain cars

• so that the law could be challenged in court

What was the result of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• "Separate but equal" was deemed constitutional

• Blacks were allowed to ride in white train cars

• Segregation ended

• more legal segregation spread across the US

Plessy v. Ferguson is considered the beginning of

• The reconstruction era

• The Jim Crow era

• The Civil War

• lunch time

What year did Plessy v. Ferguson happen?

• 1984

• 1865

• 1888

• 1896