A radical Republican championed this 1875 Act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later
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Today’s Final Jeopardy Category is: Laws in U.S. History
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A radical Republican championed this 1875 Act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later
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The Final Jeopardy Answer is: Civil Rights Act
Final Jeopardy Explanation
The United States passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 as a result of civil rights abuses against Native Americans during the Reconstruction era. On March 1, 1875, Ulysses S. Grant, the president of the United States, signed the bill into law after it had been approved by the 43rd United States Congress. The statute ensures equality in treatment in public places and on public transit and forbids exclusion from jury duty in order to “protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights.”
The bill was drafted in early 1870 by United States Senator Charles Sumner, a Radical Republican in the Senate, with the assistance of John Mercer Langston, a prominent African American who founded Howard University’s law department.
The Supreme Court concluded in the Civil Rights Cases in 1883 that the act’s provisions governing public accommodations were unconstitutional because the Equal Protection Clause did not grant Congress the authority to regulate individual citizens or corporations. The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968, both of which referenced the Commerce Clause as the source of Congress’s authority to regulate private actors, re-adopted portions of the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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