Which of these BEST describes the immediate effect of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision?
A) States passed segregationist legislation and expanded Jim Crow.
B) Southern blacks became fearful and moved to cities in the north.
C) States tried to keep segregation and Jim Crow from becoming the law.
D) Southerners protested peacefully and had sit-ins calling for their rights.

"States passed segregationist legislation and expanded Jim Crow" BEST describes the immediate effect of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.

Option A

Explanation:

In 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson was a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Louisiana state law, which rendered it compulsory for blacks and whites to have separate but equal railways, was not lawful.

Jim Crow's concepts were defended in Plessy vs. Ferguson's court, where the U.S. Supreme Court set out its "isolate but equal" legal concept between many African Americans' facilities. In fact, public education had been mainly separated since its development in many regions of the South after the Civil War.

the answer is a

explanation: