The correct answer is "Sweatt ruled that “separate but equal” graduate and professional schools were constitutional. Brown overturned that decision."
<em>"Sweatt vs Painter" </em>ruling was successful in challenging the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by previous case "Plessy vs Fergusson". Sweatt ultimately won the case when the Supreme Court concluded that Thurgood Marshall School of Law failed to qualify for being a "separate but equal" educational institution, as it lacked the sufficient facilities to become one.
<em>"Brown vs Board of Education"</em> ruling effectively overturned the ruling of the <em>"Plessy vs Fergusson case"</em>, when the Supreme Court indicated that state laws that permitted separate public schools were unconstitutional.
They opposed to the fifteenth amendment because they wanted women to be included with african - american men. It led to the woman's rights act and they wanted to focus more on women and how they should be treated as fairly as men.
struggles for power between the president and the Congress-
Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act in order to limit
the President's powers and prevent President Andrew Johnson from discharging
radical Republicans from office. This resulted from a conflict between
President Andrew Johnson and the radical Republicans over the Reconstruction of
the South
The American civil War was a war fought from 1861 to 1865. It was one of the bloodiest wars.
Before the Civil War, the Free-Soil movement and the Republican Party embraced this idea for the American West: a territory reserved for small white farmers, unchallenged by the wealthy plantation owners who could buy up vast tracts of land and employ slave labor.
