Because Africans were poorly treated and everyone finally saw the way they were treated.
He was the first black President of South Africa, he spent 27 years for trying to overthrow the pro-apartheid government. After he got out of prison, he worked to achieve human rights and a better place for the people of South Africa.
C) The states required payment of poll tax and/or the passage of literary test to vote
Building through the Sierra Nevada Mountains was very difficult and dangerous. Temperatures were freezing during the winter and in one year alone there were 44 storms.There was the great danger of an avalanche for the men working through 18 feet of snow and camping on the tunnels beneath it. Creating tunnels through the mountains required blasting with nitroglycerin. Advancing at one foot of mountain at a time, a total of 11 tunnels was created.