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True. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
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B
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He was starting to get very old and believed he wouldn't be able to make the second term
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Minor v. Happersett (1874)
Explanation:
This court case was presented on appeal by Virginia Minor, a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association, after being denied registration to vote in St. Louis in 1872. She sued Reese Happersett because he was the voting registrar.
The case was not successful at the time, as the Supreme Court ruled that women´s right to vote was not protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which showed the court was not the place to fight for voting rights for women.
The following actions were centered on the review of state voting laws and the ratification of an amendment to the Constitution. It wouldn´t be until 1920 that Minor v. Happersett was overruled by the Nineteenth Amendment that prohibited discrimination in voting rights based on sex.
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In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. ... Taney -- a staunch supporter of slavery and intent on protecting southerners from northern aggression -- wrote in the Court's majority opinion that, because Scott was black, he was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue.
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