In The Civil Rights Cases (1883), the Supreme Court ______________ the key provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, ruling that the Fourteenth Amendment limited congressional action to the prohibition of official state-sponsored discrimination as distinct from discrimination practiced by privately owned places of public accommodation.

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The word "invalidated" means that the Supreme Court struck down or declared unconstitutional the key provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. This is exactly what the Court did in The Civil Rights Cases of 1883, as it held that Congress could not regulate private discrimination, only state-sponsored discrimination. Therefore, the correct answer is B) invalidated.

In the Civil Rights Cases (1883), the Supreme Court ______________