The Dred Scott Case was a case of slavery in 1857 by the Supreme Court of the United States. The verdict of the case not only seriously undermined the prestige of the Supreme Court of the United State, but also became one of the key causes of the Civil War. The black slave named Dred Scott lived with his master for two years in states of Illinois and the territory of Wisconsin, and then backed to Missouri where was a slave state. After the death of his master, Scott brought a lawsuit and asked for freedom. However, the case was rejected by the Missouri Supreme Court and the federal court, then Scott appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. The chief justice Roger B. Taney and the court considered that black people were not a citizen
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Identify and give the significance of Manifest Destiny.
Manifest destiny was an idea that the United States expanded lands and spread the belief of democracy and freedom by destiny. It was a belief held by the Democrats in the United States in the Nineteenth Century because they thought the United States has been given the fate of expanding westward across the North American continent. The supporters of manifest destiny believed that not only the expansion of territory and influence of the United States was manifest, but also it was the destiny. This idea mainly contained three meanings. First of all, it was a destiny to establish a free, joint, and an autonomous republic within the continent of North America. Secondly, the territorial expansion of the United States was legal due to the will of god. And the last was to disseminate the sanctity of the democratic system. The manifest destiny was the result of the further inheritance and development of American expansionist ideas.
3.Identify and give the significance of John …show more content…
However, at the time of the founding of the state, the conflict between the south and north has already existed. As a generation deeply influenced by the enlightenment, many people opposed slavery at that time. However, because the long-term plantation economy has led to the South's excessive dependence on slavery, if the slavery was forcibly abolished, it would bring economic losses to the owner of the plantation. For this reason, the abolitionists chose to allow slavery to exist but tried to limit its development. But the development of cotton planting in the south made the slavery become more important and hard to change. So, the southerners were tried to protect their slavery. In addition, the second great awakening was also one of a reason. The influence of the second great awakening on the United States was that it changed some of the basic religious beliefs of the puritan in North America. On one hand, people were beginning to face to abolish slavery. On the other hand, the church began to accept the role of women in missionary work and the feminist movement began to
Identify and give the significance of Manifest Destiny.
Manifest destiny was an idea that the United States expanded lands and spread the belief of democracy and freedom by destiny. It was a belief held by the Democrats in the United States in the Nineteenth Century because they thought the United States has been given the fate of expanding westward across the North American continent. The supporters of manifest destiny believed that not only the expansion of territory and influence of the United States was manifest, but also it was the destiny. This idea mainly contained three meanings. First of all, it was a destiny to establish a free, joint, and an autonomous republic within the continent of North America. Secondly, the territorial expansion of the United States was legal due to the will of god. And the last was to disseminate the sanctity of the democratic system. The manifest destiny was the result of the further inheritance and development of American expansionist ideas.
3.Identify and give the significance of John …show more content…
However, at the time of the founding of the state, the conflict between the south and north has already existed. As a generation deeply influenced by the enlightenment, many people opposed slavery at that time. However, because the long-term plantation economy has led to the South's excessive dependence on slavery, if the slavery was forcibly abolished, it would bring economic losses to the owner of the plantation. For this reason, the abolitionists chose to allow slavery to exist but tried to limit its development. But the development of cotton planting in the south made the slavery become more important and hard to change. So, the southerners were tried to protect their slavery. In addition, the second great awakening was also one of a reason. The influence of the second great awakening on the United States was that it changed some of the basic religious beliefs of the puritan in North America. On one hand, people were beginning to face to abolish slavery. On the other hand, the church began to accept the role of women in missionary work and the feminist movement began to