In the case Sweatt V. Painter in 1950, the Supreme Court ruled that the racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional and a violation of the fourteenth amendment. This case successfully challenged the doctrine "Separate but Equal" in the Plessy V. Fergusson case. In the state of Louisiana back in 1896, there was a state sponsored segregation of black and white students.
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The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, referring to story papers, five- and ten-cent weeklies, "thick book" reprints, and sometimes early pulp magazines.
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Answer: "Hoovervilles" was the term created for the slums that were created during President Herbert Hoover's time in office. Hoover was blamed for the onset of the depression era, and the shantytowns formed out the depression bore his name. Now the term Hooverville can apply to any slum or shanty town.
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In general, silk was most likely was Persia’s most valuable asset. It was silk and similar entities that were traded by Persians along the infamous Silk Road, which connected the far East with Europe. Persia was in an advantageous position right in the middle.
New religious sects were on the rise in Europe. In England, William Penn attended Oxford where he joined the Society of Friends (Quakers). These new sects were treated badly, and the Quakers received the worst treatment of all. They were thrown in prison for refusing to obey any law that disrupted their religion and they refused to pay to support the state religion. The only way to escape such treatment was to go to America. William Penn's father was an Admiral and King Charles II had owed him a sum of money. Admiral Penn was dead so William Penn asked King Charles II give him a tract of land in payment of the debt. King Charles II granted him much of present-day Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.
