<span>It completed the expansion of the US to the Pacific</span>
One of the reason is to make sure that all people that spread across all states in United States are taken care off. By distributing the power, the federal government will grant the flexibility to make the decision for the state government for the local people and adjust that decision according to the situation that the majority of its people are currently in.
In the years 1950s-1960s is the years
conflict ended with the country split into a Communist North and a pro-Western South is the answer.