The Supreme Corut ruiling Brown vs. Board of Education ruled that segregated schools was unconstitutional. This was the single biggest reason for the Civil Rights movement because it allowed for the challenge of segregation in all areas.
At the recent convention of first continental in Philadelphia voted to establish the organized colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. It was a meeting between the 12 British representatives colonies (except Georgia) to become the United States.
The representatives of all the 12 British colonies met at Carpenter Hall in Philadelphia from 5th September to 26th October 1774. The congress also gave vote to come for the following year’s meeting if their problems were not solved of it they did not get satisfactory solution.
In the 1930s, as a reply to the increasing agitation in Europe and Asia that would eventually lead to World War II, the United States Congress passed the Neutrality Acts. These were impelled by the growing isolationism and non-interventionism policy that followed the expensive involvement in World War I and aimed to guarantee that the country would not become compromised over foreign conflicts again.
In 1941 the Neutrality Acts were widely repealed. The Lend-Lease policy aimed to defeat Germany, Japan, and Italy by distributing supplies between 1941 and 1945 put an end to the United States' pretense of neutrality.
<span>As for many Americans, the Second World War boosted the economic prospects of many African Americans. In particular, war industries created a demand for labor, which many black workers, including black women, were able to fill. Thousands of African Americans moved north to industrial centers, but also to places like California, which saw tremendous population growth during the war due to the war industries that developed there.</span>
