The Gilded Age (Jim Crow South) 1-7

Justice Harlan used this reasoning for what purpose?

• to celebrate American democracy

• to justify segregation

• to denounce the "separate-but-equal" arguement

• to demonstrate that equality before the law is not practical

Which legal policy was created by the U.S. Supreme Court in this excerpt?

• Universal suffrage

• Separate by equal

• De facto segregation

• Civil disobedience

Explain how Jim Crow Laws created obstacles to civil rights for minorities.

Explain how the Ku Klux Klan created obstacles to civil rights for minorities.

Explain the effects of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).