<span>The Brown vs Board of Education supreme court case was a turning point in the civil rights movement. This case was taken to supreme court after the city of Topeka denied the filing, and actually included 4 other schools. The ruling of the court was that separation of schools between white and black people is in fact unconstitutional.</span>
They believed the land was rightfully theirs and that they had to conquer it, so they passed policies that could allow them to spread out among the nation and gather more land for the United States.