The supreme court heard a number of cases involving slavery in the late 1840s and 1850s. With one mnor exception, slaveowners won every one of these cases and the court overwhelmingly supported the power of congress to assist them in recobering fugitive slaves.
Their plan was called the Anaconda plan.
They wanted to blockade the Southern coast to prevent them from receiving resources from other countries. They also wanted to capture the Mississippi River to effectively cut the Confederacy in half (Battle of Vicksburg). The final step in their plan was to capture the Confederate capital city (Richmond).
The GI Bill and its Impact on the U.S.: The GI Bill is another name for The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. It was passed about a year before the end of World War II in order to help veterans returning from the war to readjust and thrive in American society.
Answer:The first Chief Justice of the United States was John Jay; the Court's first docketed case was Van Staphorst v. Maryland (1791), and its first recorded decision was West v. Barnes (1791).
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