In the United States, Eminent domain is the power of the federal government or the state governments to acquire a private property in order to convert it into public use, while providing just compensation for the landowner, which in turn will give the government permission to possess the land; such compensation is protected in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
Very often, the government uses eminent domain when a person's property is situated in an area where a major infrastructure will be built, like a railway station, for example.
Answer. 1. The type of change that had the most impact on Southern life is on political. The failure of the Confederate States and the Civil War that happened between the South and the North changed the political system of the Southern part.
