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 Plessy v. Ferguson Pro-Segregation Argument The case of Plessy v. Ferguson happened in 1896, about four years after the incident occurred in which a man (Plessy) with one eighth African American blood boarded a train car assigned to whites only. This was two years after the Separate Car Act of 1890 in the state of Louisiana, making this an offense punishable by law. Plessy was arrested and hit with a fine of twenty five dollars, a charge which he challenged in the Supreme Court. Though the law was not on his side, he argued that his constitutional rights as a citizen had been violated. The following paragraphs in quotations display my script for a counter argument to Plessy in court: - "As it has been made clear by my fellow participants, the defendant was in direct violation of the law regarding the separation between colored and white people. The black codes or Jim crow laws have been rooted within our country for over three decades since the abolition of slavery was fresh. To ...

Also referred to as the Border War, Bleeding Kansas was a network of civil conflict and violence over the matter of slavery being legal in the Kansas territory, which was proposed as an additional state. One side of the conflict was pro-slavery, arguing that those who move to the new state should have the right to bring their property (including slaves). Despite the neighboring state of Missouri allowing slavery, the anti-slavery citizens stood strong on their morals and refused the idea. The overall disagreement lead to significant political battles as well as full-on guerilla warfare between immigrants to the territory with opposite ideologies stemming from their home state. One of the direct foundations of the major conflict was the production of a constitution for the Kansas territory, which would of course include the matter of slavery within the state. Intense violence and conflict continued through extensive development with laws for the new state, only to be put to an end in 18...