16. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 16: Labor and Race in the New South

**Quiz for Document 16.5: Justice Henry Billings Brown, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)**

Quiz for Document 16.5: Justice Henry Billings Brown, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Document 16.5: Justice Henry Billings Brown, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 16.13

1. In his case, Homer Plessy made the argument that, in a mixed-race setting, the reputation that came with belonging to the white race was the same as

privilege.

property.

health.

education.

Question 16.14

2. In Plessy v. Ferguson, where did the Supreme Court place the blame for the idea that separating the races suggested that African Americans were an inferior race?

On African Americans themselves

On former slave owners

On the Fourteenth Amendment

On the South’s white legislators

Question 16.15

3. According to the justices, what was necessary for the two races to meet upon terms of social equality?

Legislation

Political equality

Economic equality

Individuals’ consent

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