Some good protests about marijuana laws could be that now in some hospitals or medical services allow to use it as medication. A bad protests are that some people would see it as a legal street drug.
He ruled that Congress had no power to limit slavery in the territories.
In Dred Scott v. Sandford (argued 1856 -- decided 1857), the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories.
They were in 2 different sides. The Abolitionists and the Pro-Slavery politicians. Some were heavily against slavery and started a movement to abolish it, some even tried freeing slaves. Pro-slavery politicians were in heavy support of it and did everything in their power to keep it alive in the South. It got to the point where all the Southern States threatened to secede from the United States in the late 1850s, and even caused Virginia to split into 2 states, Virginia and West Virginia.
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The machines were expensive to buy, which helped cause some of the debt the farmers faced. However, the machines allowed for more crops to be grown and harvested, which led to an oversupply of crops. This caused crop prices to drop, which squeezed the farmers financially. The railroads were also a problem for farmers.