Long-term action, including investigations, legislative changes, military action and restoration projects.
Sectionalism refers to placing local interests above those of the nation. As the states started putting their own values before those of others the hostility grew in the years preceding the civil war. It was the slavery that divided the North and the South a led to the growth of the sectionalism.
Answer:
The colonists had moved to Croatian Island
Peaceful protest, Complaining to the US Supreme Court, and showing how they were just normal people by helping the country advance in technology, (Katherine Goble, etc)
They had to deal with segregation,
Discrimination in the workplace, limited jobs due to rascism,
and terrible education.