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| | 6. Explain the cartoon, and what you think the cartoonist's view was. The woman's quote begins, "You have been a bad boy, Steve, ever since you had anything to do with that Nebraska Bill ...." | | 6. Explain the cartoon, and what you think the cartoonist's view was. The woman's quote begins, "You have been a bad boy, Steve, ever since you had anything to do with that Nebraska Bill ...." |
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| − | :Senator Stephen Douglas is being punished by Columbia (the United States) for having caused the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1954, which established "popular sovereignty" for each territory to decide for itself whether to accept or prohibit slavery. This resulted in many "mini-Civil Wars," resulting in much strife in each territory as it tried to decide whether to accept slavery, and this Nebraska-Kansas Act was the single biggest step toward the Civil War. The cartoonist was almost a certainly a Republican, although not necessarily an abolitionist (the cartoon is about the territories, not slavery in the South). (Instructor) | + | :Senator Stephen Douglas is being punished by Columbia (the United States) for having caused the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1954, which established "popular sovereignty" for each territory to decide for itself whether to accept or prohibit slavery. This resulted in many "mini-Civil Wars," with much strife in each territory as it tried to decide whether to accept slavery, and this Nebraska-Kansas Act was the single biggest step toward the Civil War. The cartoonist was almost a certainly a Republican, although not necessarily an abolitionist (the cartoon is about the territories, not slavery in the South). (Instructor) |
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| | 7. "Remember the Alamo!" Why? | | 7. "Remember the Alamo!" Why? |
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| | H5. Compare or contrast the ''Dred Scott'' decision with ''Roe v. Wade''. | | H5. Compare or contrast the ''Dred Scott'' decision with ''Roe v. Wade''. |
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| − | :The Dred Scott decision and Roe v Wade are in one way the same because in the Dred Scott decision Blacks were given no rights as a citizen and in Roe v Wade an unborn child was given no rights as a citizen. (Dylan) | + | :The ''Dred Scott'' decision and ''Roe v Wade'' are in one way the same because in the ''Dred Scott'' decision Blacks were given no rights as a citizen and in ''Roe v Wade'' an unborn child was given no rights as a citizen. (Dylan) |
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| − | :The similarities between the Dred Scott decision and the Roe v. Wade decision are that in both cases, human beings were declared as inhuman. In Dred Scott, it stated that Blacks were basically not people, and therefore had no rights and no protection under the Constitution. The Roe v. Wade case established the same principle that unborn babies in their mother's wombs are not people and thus have no rights and no protection under the Constitution. These two court cases were probably the most influential and most hotly debated cases in American History. (Alexa) | + | :The similarities between the ''Dred Scott'' decision and the ''Roe v. Wade'' decision are that in both cases, human beings were declared as inhuman. In ''Dred Scott'', it stated that Blacks were basically not people, and therefore had no rights and no protection under the Constitution. The ''Roe v. Wade'' case established the same principle that unborn babies in their mother's wombs are not people and thus have no rights and no protection under the Constitution. These two court cases were probably the most influential and most hotly debated cases in American History. (Alexa) |