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Homer Plessy

History Alive! Chapter 11 Study Guide

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Saaim Khan 11.06.16 Chapter 11 Reconstruction Key Content Terms (2 points each ? use complete sentences) Define and Explain the significance of each Key Content Term listed below. Thirteenth Amendment: This was the first of three Reconstruction-era amendments that freed slaves completely from their masters. Republicans in Congress pleaded with President Johnson to add the requirement that Southern states must grant freedmen the right to vote. Johnson, however, did not accept those pleas and said that white men alone should manage the South.

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Facts of the Case? The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy--who was seven-eighths Caucasian--took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. Question? Is Louisiana's law mandating racial segregation on its trains an unconstitutional infringement on both the privileges and immunities and the equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment? Conclusion? Decision:?7 votes for Ferguson, 1 vote(s) against Legal provision:?US Const. Amend 14, Section 1
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