Why did southern states pass segregation laws to prevent contact between whites and african americans? southerners believed contact would suggest equality. southerners wanted to comply with the federal government. southerners thought contact might lead to violence. southerners believed in “separate but equal” treatment.

The correct answer is A) Southerners believed contact would suggest equality.

Southern states passed segregation laws to prevent contact between whites and African Americans because Southerners believed contact would suggest equality.

People in the Southern states favored slavery. They passed laws that supported segregation and prohibit contact between white people and black people. This was very criticized by people in the Union states of the North. Southern people based part of their economy on slavery and for them it was normal and part of its life. African American people suffered many limitations and were considered property in the Southern states. Separatism and slavery were reasons that initiated the Civil War.  

separate but equal was a legal doctrine in united states constitutional law according to which racial segregation did not violate the fourteenth amendment to the united states constitution, which guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all people. under the doctrine, as long as the facilities provided to each race were equal, state and local governments could require that services, facilities, public accommodations, housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation be segregated by race, which was already the case throughout the states of the former confederacy. the phrase was derived from a louisiana law of 1890, although the law actually used the phrase "equal but separate

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