Which Decision Is Indicative of How the Supreme Court Interpreted

question 31

Multiple Choice

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)Brown v.Board of Education
• B)the Dred Scott decision
• C)Plessy v.Ferguson
• D)McCulloch v.Maryland
• E)Gibbons v.Ogden

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