The Sanford v. Dred Scott decision intensified national divisions over the issue of slavery and inflamed the North which was generally opposed to slavery. The decision affected slavery in the territories as it made it constitutional despite the Missouri Compromise as the Supreme Court ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.
Answer: How the 19th Amendment began.
Explanation:
From Seneca Falls to the civil rights movement, see what events led to the ratification of the 19th amendment and later acts supporting Black and Native American women's right to vote.
By the time the final battle over ratification of the 19th Amendment went down in Nashville, Tennessee in the summer of 1920, 72 years had passed since the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.
More than 20 nations around the world had granted women the right to vote, along with 15 states, more than half of them in the West. Suffragists had marched en masse, been arrested for illegally voting and picketing outside the White House, gone on hunger strikes and endured brutal beatings in prison—all in the name of the American woman’s right to vote. See a timeline of the push for the 19th Amendment—and subsequent voting rights milestones for women of color—below.
A. to fulfill their life-long commitment to abolishing slavery in the u.s.
New Orleans was at the time one of the biggest ports of slave trading. This allowed the US to trade goods and sell. This made it necessary to attain it
