Answer:
hardworking
Explanation:
The passage presents a witness recount that describes Lincoln´s reputation as being a truly hardworking person from a very early age. He would walk a great distance to attend court sessions, especially when Breckenridge would speak. However, he would still take care of his chores before and after his visits to Booneville.
• A ruler must be virtuous and set an example for his subjects.
• Education is the key to success.
• Respect for ones’ elders creates an orderly society.
Confucius was a social reformer and believed in morals and a philosophy which he wrote in the “Five canons” and the “Four Books”. It is explained that the priorities are family first and community second.
Thus the values:
1. The ruler must be righteous. He must lead by example, to work hard and inspire others to live morally. The ruler must take care of the well-being of his followers
2. Confucius believed that is by “study and practice” that human beings evolve and that education is the way to improve.
3. The ancestors should be respected and worshiped as part of a religion.
Before embarking on the series of court cases that argued for his freedom, Scott’s life was the rootless existence typical of many slaves. Born around 1799 in Virginia, he moved with his owner Peter Blow to Alabama and eventually to St. Louis, where he was sold to U.S. Army Dr. John Emerson in the early 1830s.
Like many antebellum officers, Emerson was transferred from post to post through Western states and territories. During those journeys, Scott married a slave woman named Harriet Robinson in 1836. When Emerson died in 1843, Scott, by then the father of two children, likely hoped the doctor’s will would manumit him—and his family—but it did not. Scott then offered Emerson’s brother-in-law and executor, J.A. Sanford, $300 hoping to buy his own freedom. But the offer was turned down. Scott decided to take the matter to the courts.
By 1846, Scott was living in St. Louis in service to Emerson’s widow. He filed suit with the state of Missouri, claiming that since he had lived with Emerson in Illinois—where slavery was outlawed by the 1787 Northwest Ordinance—and Fort Snelling in Minnesota—where the Missouri Compromise outlawed slavery in 1820—he was entitled to his freedom. In an interesting twist, the children of Peter Blow, Scott’s first owner, provided the slave family financial assistance.
The capture of Atlanta turned the war in the north’s favor and because of this Lincoln won the popular vote and 221 to 21 in the electoral college.
