The main point of this excerpt is that African-Americans were not considered US citizens.
In the Supreme Court case Dred Scott vs. Sandford, Scott is suing for his freedom from slavery. This is because his master brought him to the Wisconsin territory, a territory where slavery was outlawed.
However, the Supreme Court ruled against him. The reason why they ruled against him is based on the excerpt above. The Declaration of Independence did not make it blatantly clear that slaves were considered citizens. Since they were not considered citizens, they had no legal rights that slave owners had to respect.
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Answer:
c. President Cleveland preferred that the monarchy be restored to power.
Explanation:
The Hawaiian monarch Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown by a coalition of 13 Caucasian businessmen, and lawyers under Sanford Ballard Dole, a group named Committee of Safety and a new provincial government was established with Dole as the new president. At that time, the president of the United States Grover Cleveland decided to send a new minister to restore Queen Liliuokalani under the Constitution of 1887, but Dole declined to move away and declared the independent Republic of Hawaii.
