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Answer the following about Senator Henry W. Blair’s namesake “bill” proposed to spend the growing federal surplus in the 1880s, for 10 points each.
[10m] The bill would have provided direct federal funding to what institutions whose “common” types were developed by Horace Mann in the 1830s?
ANSWER: public schools [or common schools]
[10e] To secure support from Southern Democrats, Blair added language institutionalizing a predecessor to what three-word doctrine that the Supreme Court established in Plessy v. Ferguson?
ANSWER: “separate but equal” [or “equal but separate”]
[10h] The bill was killed by House Speaker John Carlisle, a leader of what political faction that opposed the Fifteenth Amendment and aligned with the Redeemers?
ANSWER: Bourbon Democrats
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