I think the answer is <span>A. NY City </span>
After Stalin died in 1953, the number of people sent to the gulag "<span>c. decreased dramatically," since Stalin was a primary proponent of sending political dissenters, any anyone he felt threatened by to the Gulag as punishment. </span>
<span>John Chupco is a leader of the Newcomer, a band of the Seminole who supported the Union from 1861 to 1866. He joined the Presbyterian Church Congregation in Wewoka, Oklahoma in 1869 where he became a rancher and a farmer and resisted the creation of Oklahoma territory concerning that it would damage the future of the Seminole.</span>
<span>A major purpose of these laws was to preserve slavery. In the first two years after the Civil War, white-dominated southern legislatures passed Black Codes modeled after the earlier slave codes. They were particularly concerned with controlling movement and labor, as slavery had given way to a free labor system.</span>