<span>According to a 1993 World Bank report, East Asian economic growth in the late twentieth century was due, in part, to g</span>overnments that favored import substitution over export competitiveness.
Answer is: <span>strengthened segregation policies (Jim Crow).
</span>Plessy v. Ferguson was Supreme Court decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation. <span>This decision legitimized the state laws racial segregation. </span>Jim Crow laws<span> were state and local laws that allows </span>racial segregation<span> in the </span>Southern United States.
The primary issue that divided the country as the US expanded its borders was that of slavery--with the pro-slavery population wanting the new states to be slave and the abolitionists wanting it to be free. The fact that it was eventually decided that the issue of slavery would be decided by "popular sovereignty" eventually led to the Civil War. <span />
<span>The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII) to the United States Constitution
prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of
Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of
office for Representatives.</span>