Which decision is indicative of how the Supreme Court interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment and state discretion in civil rights matters in the decades after the Civil War?

A. the Dred Scott decision
B. Gibbons v. Ogden
C. Plessy v. Ferguson
D. Brown v. Board of Education
E. McCulloch v. Maryland

Answer: C

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a. all minority groups— b. African Americans c. women d. Latinos

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