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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.
Was every person living in the US in that collective we in the constitution?
"We the People" refers to all citizens of the United States. However, in 1789 slaves were not included in this statement.
Which historical document says that everyone is equal under the law?
In speaking of the United States, the US Constitution serves as the governing document to protect the rights of US citizens. The US Supreme Court in the US determines issues and laws related to the US Constitution.
What US Constitution made African Americans citizens?
slaves
Which amendment made slaves citizens of the US?
13TH amendmentThe 13th amendment FREED the slaves, the 14th amendment made former slaves US Citizens. So the correct answer would have to be 14th amendment (passed in 1866, ratified in 1868)
What document freed all the slaves in the US and in what year?
Emancipation Proclamation
What percentof US citizens lived in urban areas in 1860?
slaves
What amendment said you can be born in the US but NOT be a citizen?
The 14th amendment says that if you are born in the US you are a citizen. Beforethis amendment slaves born in the US were not citizens. Slavery was allowed by the original US Constitution but was not part of any amendment. Also, children born in the United States to citizens of other countries would not automatically be US citizens before this amendment was ratified.
What document set up us current government?
The United States Constitution was the document that established the Federal system of government. The US Constitution was, in its time, a revolutionary document that recognized the freedoms of its citizens. At the time of its ratification, most of the world's established countries did not have the freedoms the the US Constitution recognized.
What document promised to free all slaves in those states or parts of states still under control of the Confederacy?
it was a speech Abraham Lincoln wrote when he was elected as president in 1860 but not all of the slaves were free Lincoln changed his idea and tried to keep the US together.
What document began with 'You the people of the US'?
There is not a document that begins this way, but what this is referring to is the document that begins 'We the people of the United States...' That document is the constitution of the United States.
What is the name of the document that lays out the plan for your government and gives us the citizens your rights?
It is either the Articles of Confederation or the Virginia Plan, which states the three branches of government.
Which document freed living in states in rebellion again the union?
US President Lincoln issued his final emancipation proclamation in January of 1863. The proclamation decreed that slaves in the Confederate States were free. It had no immediate affect in that most of the slaves in the Confederacy, remained under the control of their "owners".
