Which decision is indicative of how the Supreme Court interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment and state discretion in civil rights matters in the decades after the Civil War?
A. the Dred Scott decision
B. Gibbons v. Ogden
C. Plessy v. Ferguson
D. Brown v. Board of Education
E. McCulloch v. Maryland
Answer: C
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false