B. to demonstrate support for
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The Supreme Court can set a precedent for how later cases are treated, and since it is the highest court in the land, Supreme Court decisions are "final" they aren't able to be contested and taken to a higher court.
Explanation:
Answer: You only gave us the four answer choices, not the excerpt as well. We need the excerpt in order to answer this question.
<span>Northerners were tired of reconstruction after twelve long years. In the beginning it had been a great social adventure. Many had been convinced that they were doing a very good, important thing. By 1877 many felt that they would never accomplish the social good that they sought to accomplish. The general feeling was that the the south might never really change.</span>
Cotton growers used profits to build more textile mills. I don't think the cotton GROWERS did that; they just sold the cotton to others who processed it for clothing.
