Plessy v. Ferguson allowed separate but to equal known as segregation to become law in the United States.
The large farms all over the south are called Plantations
Basically the 14th Amendment is saying we have freedom for laws and rights.
Answer: Medieval doctors did not have a clue what caused disease. Most doctors still believed the Greek theory from Galen, a doctor during the Roman Empire, that you became ill when the 'Four Humours' - phlegm, black bile, yellow bile, blood - became unbalanced.