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6. In your own words, explain the Dred Scott Supreme Court case? What was the ruling? Chart - Complete the chart below using the information from this lesson. You do not need to write complete sentences.

Which claim presents a significant and accurate argument about "The Oval Portrait"?

On one of the upper branches of the Congo river lived an ancient and aristocratic family of hippopotamuses, which boasted a pedigree dating back beyond thedays of Noah-beyond the existence of mankind-far into the dim ages when the world was new. They had always lived upon the banks of this same river, so thatevery curve and sweep of its waters, every pit and shallow of its bed, every rock and stump and wallow upon its bank was as familiar to them as their ownmothers. And they are living there yet, I suppose.

Why does the narrator close his eyes after seeing the painting of a young girl when he moves the candelabrum?

On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my Country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with dispondence, one, who, inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpractised in the duties of civil administration, ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions, all I dare aver, is,that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance, by which it might be affected. FELLOW-CITIZENS: I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate. When the occasion proper for it shall arrive,I shall endeavor to express the high sense I entertain of this distinguished honor, and of the confidence which has been reposed in me by the people of united America. Previous to the execution of any official act of the President the Constitution requires an oath of office. This oath I am now about to take, and in your presence: That if it shall be found during my administration of the Government I have in any instance violated willingly or knowingly the injunctions thereof, I may(beside incurring constitutional punishment) be subject to the up braidings of all who are now witnesses of the present solemn ceremony. What is a similarity between the two texts?

What was the Wilmot Proviso of 1848? barred slavery from the territories ) called for popular sovereignty in the territories ) wanted to give all the land acquired in theTreaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo back to Mexico created areas for slavery to expand

What was popular sovereignty? the people who settled the territories would decide slavery's fatewhat docidod if what decided if a state seceded from the Union the democratization of politics in the antebellum period the popular vote that decided the 1848 presidential race

1. Who is to meet? 2. When? - 3. Where? 4. Why? - 5. What is the date of the original document?

What essentially voided the Missouri Compromise? the Tariff of 1830 ) the Indian Removal Act of 1830 the Kansas-Nebraska Act ) the Fugitive Ślave Act of 1850

What was Stephen Douglas' counter proposal to the Wilmot Proviso? O extension of the Missouri Compromise line renegotiation of the Missouri Compromise line divide the territory equally between slave and free O popular sovereignty