Federalists believed that the central government should be strong and have a lot of power. They held a loose interpretation of the Constitution, meaning they believed that, if the Constitution didn't say you couldn't do something, you could do it.
<span>Ethnicity is mostly based upon the geographic location of one's ancestors, but it should be noted that this is a complex topic and there are other factors as well. </span>
After winning the California and South Dakota primary elections<span> for the </span>Democratic<span> nomination for </span>President of the United States<span>, Kennedy was fatally shot while exiting through the hotel kitchen immediately after leaving the podium in the </span>Ambassador Hotel<span> and died in the </span>Good Samaritan Hospital twenty-six hours later. Sirhan Sirhan<span>, a 24-year-old </span>Palestinian/Jordanian immigrant<span>, was convicted of Kennedy's murder and is serving a life sentence for the crime.</span>
James Knox Polk, also called "Young Hickory" won the presidential election of 1844 with the combination of southern and western expansionism ideas. Dealing with a war with Mexico about the annexation of Texas and having to settle a treaty with the British empire over Oregon, they rapidly accepted what the UK had to offer. They submitter a drafty treaty extended the border between US and Canada along the 49th parallel. The treaty was ratified 3 days after.
As a result, a group of northwester expansionists, unsatisfied with the treaty, saying they cared more about annexing entire Texas but not entire Oregon, joined antislavery forces and condemned what they regarded a base betrayal by the South.
Dred Scott vs. Sanford ruled that Black Americans were not American citizens and did not have the right to sue someone in federal court. It also ruled that Congress lacked the power to ban slavery in the U.S..
