There have been several cases in the history of the Supreme Court that have had a powerful impact on both the highest court of the land and the history of the United States. The Dred Scott decision can definitely be included in this category of monumental cases that changed the course of American history. ... The slave does not have an identity or history of his own. ... This is why the case of Dred Scott played such an important role in American history. ... The decision, which Justice Taney presented, had three main points: Negroes, even those who were not slaves, could not be citizens of th...

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The Supreme Court ruling that ultimately interpreted the Constitution, at the time, is titled ,"Scott vs. ... He continues, "The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors where imported into this country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen?" ... Ultimately the Justices decided that, "...upon full and careful consideration of the subject, the court is of opinion,...

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History shows that Abraham Lincoln won the election; that was more than enough to confirm their decision. ... Article 1, section 10 declares the following: " No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power- The Union saw this breaching of the constitution by the south as rebellion. ... Significantly, history shows this as the last major Confederate offensive in the war. ... The constitution held the supreme law of the land and was to be en...

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All of this was basically a different interpretation of the United States Constitution on both sides. ... Basically the North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. ... Some of the most famous abolitionists were William Lloyd Garrison of Boston, Wendell Phillips, who in 1836 gave up his law practice because he couldn't support the United States Constitution, James G. ... It was all described when a Southern man said "We have at last reached that point in our history when it is necessary for the South to withdraw from the Union. ...

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There has been one document in America's history that has withstood the test of time and continues to "work- and serve its purpose even today in modern times. ... Many states, including Maryland, Tennessee, and Louisiana, amended their state constitutions to abolish slavery. ... But I understand that Lincoln had to convey it as a war effort because of his oath to protect the Constitution. ... The Emancipation Proclamation still stands as one of the most important documents in liberation history today. ...

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American history, as we know it today, is made up of many different chapters. ... One of the dark chapters of American history is the period of slavery. ... From this group, few people stood out that were responsible for closing this dark chapter of history. ... In 1842, Garrison took the even more controversial position and proposed that northerns should refuse to acknowledge all allegiance to the Union, since the Constitution seemed to protect slavery. ... As time passes, you will come to notice that the mistakes happened in the past will remain a dark chapter of history, and all that remain...

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Civil War historian Shelby Foote describes the American Civil War as the most important event in American History. The Civil War was, at the very least, one of the most controversial periods in American history. ... The Confederate Constitution of 1861 begins by stating "each State acting on it's own sovereign and independent character (wishes to) secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." ... A States right was a major topic, even at the drafting of the US Constitution in 1787. ...

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Lets go back in history and see how this whole thing acuatlly led up to to the Underground Railroad. There have been slaves through most of human history. ... Slavery was very different in early history, often people became slaves when their nation lost a war. ... The American Constitution had declared in 1787 that any slave who escaped to a free state had to be returned to the owner. ...

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The American Civil War was a milestone in the history of not only the United States, but the world as well. ... Through the bloodiest battles in American history, the goals of the Northern and Southern counterparts were either achieved or failed. ... This fear came because during the beginning years of the war, President Lincoln exercised his powers beyond what the constitution allows. ... These bloody battles murdered more Americans than in any war in U.S. history. ...

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(History-Sojourner 2) She became the first black woman to crusade for abolition in 1828. (History-Sojourner 1) John Dumont was the slaveholder of Sojourner Truth. ... (History-Sojourner 1). ... (Russell 57) Since the framing of the Constitution, the essential political difference between the North and the South, was the legality of slavery. ... (History-Sojourner 2) Two years later, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863. ...

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Abraham Lincoln is considered one of the best presidents in American history. He had a great impact on American history that still impacts us yet today. ... Shortly after his term in the US House of Representatives he proposed an amendment to the constitution to abolish slavery which did not get passed but showed how much Abraham was against slavery. ... This soon lead to the forming of one of the most popular and oldest political parties in US history, the Republican party. ... This was one of the most important and famous speeches in American history, Lincoln stated "And by virtue of ...

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In the United States Slavery was of some of the most brutal and suppressive recorded in history. ... Slaves were thought of as sub human and were expressedly written into the constitution as such but only done so to appease the rural souths representation of population in congress. In the history of the U.S. there was little record of slave revolt or any type of organized slave body. ... These wars had already taken place and there was no reason for Brazil to repeat the mistakes of histories past. ... The United States has had a long history of racial discrimination dating back to it'...

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Despite agreements and legislation, some slave trading still continued-.  2 Starting form the Black Codes of 1865 to the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the American history still calls for to brood over each and every details of that struggle which took many years to see the sun of total freedom and liberty. Citizenship of the Freed Slave is not only an event to waffle about, in actual fact its start of a new chapter in American history. ... The acceptance by a large group of workers and farmers of the second class citizenship of the freed slaves spelled the doom of t...

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Prior to giving this speech Douglass spent two years studying the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and especially found the Fifth Amendment to be contradictory in practice. His antislavery stance forced his audience to question the core of their American beliefs in a Republic which traced its history back to the Enlightenment. ...

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He believed that federal constitution was being reinterpreted to establish a race-based, not a natural-rights-based, system of government that would extend slavery into every territory and state of the American union. In addition, the Founders planned to cut off its supply and restrict its expansion, which in short, "the framers of the constitution intended and expected the ultimate extinction of that institution.5 Within the cotton boom, it was beneficial for both Americans and African-Americans. ... Lincoln alludes to what is the greatest political irony in American history that America...

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The most intriguing question is whether the war that was both a landmark in the American history and a cause of misery was inevitable. ... The constitution which was their unifying factor did not mean much to them but just another agreement between the states of the U.S (James & Michael, 210). ...

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