Foreigners would Be the correct answer I believe
The land of Alaska was bought from Russia and the purchase was called Seward's folly as it was thought ridiculous.
<span>Hawaii was a sovereign nation with its own monarchy but populated by Americans, particularly the pineapple owners, who wanted to be a part of America to avoid various import taxes etc. They forced the then king to sign, at gunpoint, a new constitution which disenfranchised many voters and then used economic and political strength to eventually end the monarchy and make Hawaii a part of the US, both were voted in as states in 1959</span><span />
Brown v. Board of Education overturned the case of Plessy v. Ferguson. Oliver Brown wanted his daughter to attend an all white school but had to go to an all black school much farther away. The deviation from this court case what that the “separate but equal” from plessy v Ferguson was no longer valid because blacks still had inferior school.