Use the link to answer the questions:
1. What year was Plessy vs. Ferguson?
2. What did the law state that was passed in Louisiana in 1890?
3. What was one exception to this law?
4. What was Homer Plessy's ethnic breakdown? What do you think about this with regards to how people in the South felt about African Americans?
5. Why was he arrested?
6. Who was John H. Ferguson and what is his connection to the case?
7. What was Plessy's argument in the suit?
8. What two amendments to the Constitution did he cite?
9. What did the Supreme Court say about the case as it pertained to the 14th amendment?
10. What did Justice Henry Brown say?
11. What did the Court say about the 13th amendment?
12. In what ways die the Court reject Plessy's argument?
13. What did Justice John Marshall Harlan say?
14. What dioes he mean be a "caste"? You might have to use Google for this one.
15. Use Google again and list an example of one country with a "caste" system?
16. What do you think about "caste" systems?
17. Were facilties for whites and blacks truly equal?
18. What was the name of the famous court case that later overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson?
19. What year was that case and what was the Supreme Court vote count?
20. How does the Court tend to rule today about segregation?
21. In one FULL paragraph discuss your personal feelings about Plessy vs. Ferguson...how would YOU have voted if you were a judge? Back up your opinion.