Hola comestas im not very fluent in español but i try to learn so I understand your struggle!
To speak of sadness and it was about the civil war and slavery.
A federal court, an appellate court and a judicial court. mostly federal court.
If you refer to Meriwether Lewis (Meriwether was his mother's surname actually), an American Explorer and a leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition, partially named after him, then he was born in the Colony of Virginia, a British Colony and part of the British Empire.
Emancipation Proclamation summary: The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, as the country entered the third year of the Civil War. It declared that "all persons held as slaves … shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free"—but it applied only to states designated as being in rebellion, not to the slave-holding border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri or to areas of the Confederacy that had already come under Union control. The careful planning of this document, with Lincoln releasing it at just the right moment in the war, ensured that it had a great positive impact on the Union efforts and redefined the purpose of the war. The Emancipation Proclamation continues to be a symbol of equality and social justice.