The 1896 Supreme Court decision in ________ legitimized racial segregation as constitutional by affirming the idea of "separate but equal."
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson
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A) four televised debates B) Eisenhower's endorsement of Kennedy C) Nixon's "Checkers" speech D) public revelation of Nixon's womanizing
Barbed wire was invented by
A) Joseph F. Glidden. B) Joseph G. McCoy. C) Walter Prescott Webb. D) S. D. Butcher.
Italian Neo-Platonist philosophers believed that
a. the search for order in nature was part of the search for knowledge about God. b. experimental investigation had to be divorced from theological speculation. c. study of the humanities was much more important than the study of nature. d. the search for knowledge about God began with experimental observation. e. a sharp break with antiquity was necessary.
In some cases white conservatives in the South attempted to defeat Congress's Reconstruction plans by
a. actively and openly calling for secession. b. bribing federal poll watchers. c. defying laws designed to redistribute land throughout the South. d. boycotting the polls.