<span>The Catholic Reformation or Counter Reformation was the
efforts of the Catholic Church to rehabilitate the Church and to win back
people to the faith. Various orders were
mobilized to attain these goals. The
Clerics of St. Paul who were also known as Barnabites was founded to care for
people who were suffering and to uplift their moral standards. Another order was the Cleric Residents of Somascha
also known as the Somaschi who worked in hospitals and orphanages. Others like the Capuchins who are still part
of the Franciscan Order led simple lives were involved in works of
charity. The Ursulines were devoted to
educating girls. The most aggressive was
the Society of Jesus founded by St. Ignatius Loyola. Its followers were very aggressive in
spreading the faith and they were educated as well as talented. They also spread the faith beyond Europe
gaining more converts to the Catholic faith.
Though they differed in their
approach all these orders helped in making the Counter Reformation a success.</span>
Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott case".
He was a diff. color citizen and he made a speech after rosa parks (diff color) decided to refuse to give up her seat after a long day at work. So he made a " I have a dream" speech and later on he got assassinated in his house.
