The legal doctrine based on the Plessy v. Ferguson case was known as __________

a) the separate-but-equal doctrine
b) the three-strikes-and-you-are-out doctrine
c) the broken-windows doctrine
d) the Mason-Dixon doctrine


Answer: a

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A) savage treatment of prisoners became commonplace. B) the trenches were sterilized and sanitized and offered satisfactory accommodation. C) daily life for the soldier became increasingly squalid and miserable in rat-infested trenches. D) they were increasingly encouraged by their officers not to fight and to await a peace treaty ending the war. E) most of the participants on all sides simply quit active fighting and the war bogged down into a stalemate.

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