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The narrator came from the Midwest to work on Wall Street as a bondsman. It is described as "an eye-sore" that is "squeezed between two mansions". It is "a cheerful red-and-white Georgian mansion". Nick and Daisy are second cousins; Nick and Tom knew each other in college.
Perhaps in the Civil War era, the Dred Scott decision angered Abolitionists as the Supreme Court declared African Americans could not be a US citizen as they were not mentioned as as in the Constitution and that Congress abused their power by abolishing Slavery above the Mason Dixon line and in the New Western territories.
Northerners and famously Fredrick Douglass denounced the court ruling.<span />
At the peak of the Roman Empire's reach, around A.D. 117, the Empire stretched as far north as modern Scotland, stretched down through Europe east into Asia as far as the border between modern day Iraq and Iran, with its southern reaches extending into northern Africa.
(D) a result of poor conditions and treatment like this lead to the formation b of Unions
