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The US Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case decision of 1857 contains the 50 pages opinion of Chief Justice Taney. In the document he states that Blacks cannot be citizens because they are Blacks and that slavery was constitutional. The latter was the fault of the Framers of the US Constitution who allowed it in order for the slave states to ratify the constitution.
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What as us citizens do we all share?
As US citizens we all share the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. We also share the United States flag as our symbol of Americanism.
Which part of the US Constitution states the purposes of the document?
The Preamble
How many slaves were there on southern plantations?
About four million. There were also eight million whites in the slave states. The proportion of slaves in the populations of the slave states ranged from 13% in Maryland to 55% in Mississippi and 57% in South Carolina.By 1860, many southern slave owners and plantation owners owned less than 100 black slaves in their farming land.one out of three
The most outrageous component of the Compromise of 1850 was the?
fugitive slave act, which said that all US citizens must help with the capturing of runaway slaves.
What did the US census in 1810 reveal about the slave population?
The US Census of 1860 numbered the nations population to be 31,443,321. The eleven states that seceded had a population of 9,103,332. These states had 5,449,462 "whites" and 3,521,110 slaves. The seceded states also had a free Black population of 139,760.
