How did the Supreme Court ruling on the Civil Rights Cases of 1883 affect the rights of African Americans? A. It led to the drafting and passage of the Civil Right Act. B. It led to a sharp increase in African American voting. C. It opened the doors for legal segregation in the South. D. It led to unfair sharecropping contracts in the South.

A

In an 8–1 decision, the landmark ruling struck down the critical provision in the Civil Rights Act prohibiting racial discrimination in public places (such as hotels, restaurants, theatres, and railroads), what would later be called “public accommodations.The ruling barred Congress from remedying racial segregation and in effect legalized the notion of “separate but equal” (though the ruling did not use this language) that would predominate in American society until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It was a devastating blow to the rights of African Americans. The five consolidated cases were United States v. Stanley, United States v. Ryan, United States v. Nichols, United States v. Singleton, and Robinson and wife v. Memphis & Charleston R.R. Co.

the correct answer is a: slaves from other colonies ran away to georgia.