What did justice brown’s verdict in plessy v. ferguson state?

a. it was against the law to segregate people based on race.

b. laws permitting separation are unconstitutional.

c. separation does not necessarily imply any inequality.

d. desegregation was the only option to solve this court case.

the correct answer is c.

The correct answer is C.

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark decision (1896) of the U.S. Supreme Court. It upheld the constitutional right of racial segregation laws for public facilities. It is known as the 'separate but equal' doctrine, meaning that the separated facilities had to be equal in quality.

Justice Henry Billings Brown stated in his verdict that separation does not necessarily imply any inequality and that the segregation laws do not imply that a particular race was inferior.

The verdict upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation as long as the facilities were equal in quality.

b) to encourage free trade

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)