In 1896 the Supreme Court Again Addressed Segregation and Racial

question 9

Multiple Choice

In 1896 the Supreme Court again addressed segregation and racial discrimination in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. What precedent was established by the ruling in this case?

• A) States must act with haste to correct discriminatory laws and practices.
• B) Institutionalized and legalized racial segregation violates the Fourteenth Amendment's "equal protection" clause.
• C) Only the state governments may address race relations.
• D) The Fourteenth Amendment does not give powers to the federal government to regulate local segregation issues.
• E) The doctrine of "separate but equal" was established and segregation was constitutional if this standard was met.

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean.

IQR

Interquartile Range, a measure of variability, indicates the range within which the middle 50% of a data set lies.

Median

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