The soil was held together by grass roots. It was called sod. Settlers were called sodbusters because they had to break through the sod to plant crops. There was not a lot of wood, so settlers used sod to build homes.
The Brown vs Board of Education legal case was a very important part of history which essentially ended segregation among blacks and whites in schools and started to integrate them together.
Brown vs Board of Education started in the 1950's when a young African American girl had to walk over a mile to school everyday, but there was a school for whites very close by.
This was when the NAACP, which advocated for the rights and freedoms of colored people came in. They believed segregation among schools and "separate but equal" was in fact <em>not</em> equal.
Eventually, the Brown vs Board of Education case went to the Supreme Court, when finally in 1954 the case was won by the NAACP and integration between public schools began.
Many citizens and schools were against integration and many more rulings with the Supreme Court had to occur, but finally a few decades later all of the public schools in the United States were integrated among races and the "separate but equal" principle was no longer.
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Education become compulsory in the United States of America in 1880. An Act was passed in 1880 which make it compulsory for parents to send their children to school until they are ten years of age. The right to education was extended to the blind and the deaf children in 1893.
The factors that encouraged commercial growth in the post classical era include the following: new state practices, new trading organisations and new state sponsored commercial infrastructures. The post classical era refers to the period which immediately followed the ancient history and precede modern history.
