In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham. Birmingham in 1963 was a hard place for blacks to live in.
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The Articles of Confederation gave tons of power to the states, even more than the federal government. This idea of states' rights is reflected in the Articles, but it was a bit too much, which is why the Articles were repealed.
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Option: They wanted to seek silver and gold there.
Explanation:
Americans first travel across the Great Plains to get gold and silver in the 1800s. After the Civil War, a vast amount of people from the east began to move in the West in search of gold. The first wave of settlers to the West were miners. The great plains region consists of Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.
The Second Continental Congress decided to choose Thomas Jefferson of Virginia,Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, John Adams of Massachusetts , Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York to sign the statement
