They raised money so that they could build a powerful army. Trade made them wealthy because of taxes, and the taxes helped pay for armies
I think you mean Plessy v. Ferguson....but that was the being of segregation
[the legal one] while Jim crow was the way of life [the illegal one]
Because an extremely limited central government. As the Confederation Congress attempted to govern the continually growing American states ,delegates found that the limitations placed upon the central government rendered it ineffective at doing so.
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government