Metacom (1638–1676), also known as Metacomet and by his adopted English name King Philip, was chief to the Wampanoag people and the second son of the sachem Massasoit. He became a chief in 1662 when his brother Wamsutta died shortly after their father Massasoit.
<span>D. To support anti-communist rebel groups
The United States wanted to keep the communism from spreading to the other areas of the world. It supported the Contra rebels in Nicaragua because of its goal to fight against a regime that was influenced by the communists such as the Sandinistas.<span>
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Since he lived in a theocratic government, he was tried by the Holy Office for teaching that the Earth revolves around the Sun which was deemed a heretic by the Catholic Church.
In the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination.
