I'd say that they got it from exploration, really.
I'd have to say the westward expansion. mainly because cheap land, economic opportunities
The Supreme Court interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment very narrowly, stating that the federal government could not prosecute individuals for discriminatory acts. Lynching's and mob violence were left to the states to handle. Within a generation after the end of Reconstruction 1877
The correct answer is: "It accepted the constitutionality of the 'separate but equal' and allowed the proliferation of segregated public facilities".
The Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the enactment of a landmark Supreme Court decision in 1896.
Such decision allowed the proliferation of segregated schools and the constutionality of the "separate but equal" principle under the belief that, if facilities were equal in quality, such education system was not violating the equality of rights provision that had been guaranteed for all US citizens by the Reconstruction Amendments to the US Constitution.
