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.
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As per the question, the author's key purpose of including this paragraph include 'to inform the reader about the location' and 'to entertain the readers by showing how dramatic the situation is.
Answer:The 1860 presidential election turned on a number of issues including secession; the relationship between the federal government, states, and territories; and ...
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Abolitionists and pro-slavery settlers fought about whether Kansas would be a free or slave state
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In the wake of the tensions and conflict between the slave states and free states, Kansas was one of the states that had it the worst because of internal conflicts. The population in the state was divided, so Kansas was on neither side, while having two large fractions pushing in certain direction. This has resulted in multiple organized groups to cause terror and violence, with lot of people ending up dead, all in order to gain support or advantage to move in certain direction. Even though the officials tried to resolve things with voting, there was always problems with the voting, and lot of scandals about fraud with it, so the settlers were solving this issue on the terrain.
1990 was when Germany became it's own country.
