Supreme Court Cases in the Gilded Age

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1873 Cases that narrowly interpreted the 14th amendment as only to guarantee citizenship rights for blacks; the Court stated that the 14th Amendment offered no protection against state infringement of a citizen's privileges;

Slaughterhouse Cases

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Court ruled in 1875 that suffrage was not a right of citizenship so it was not unconstitutional to deprive a woman of the right to vote;

Minor v. Happersett

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The Court ruled in 1877 that states could regulate commerce, in this case, a grain elevator ;

Munn v. Illinois

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Cases in 1883 that narrowly defined the civil rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment; said that blacks were protected against state action to limit their rights but not against individual actions; declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional;

Civil Rights Cases

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The Court ruled in 1886 that states could only limit intrastate commerce, not interstate commerce; thus a state could not outlaw different rates for long and short haul railroad traffic; led to the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887;

Wabash case

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First significant case under the Sherman Antitrust Act; the Court ruled in 1895 that monopoly control of manufacturing was not the same control of commerce so the Sherman Antitrust Act did not apply;

US v. E.C. Knight Co.

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Denied a writ of habeas corpus for a union leader arrest for disobeying an injunction under the Sherman Antitrust Act;

In re Debs

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Established the principle of separate but equal for different facilities that segregated the races such as railway cars;

Plessy v. Ferguson

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