Slavery was a major issue of weather it should continue or not. this lead to the civil war. before that we were still in the practice of manifest destiny( US expansion from Atlantic to Pacific oceans) so we couldn't decide what states would be introduced as slave or free.so the correct answer is Existing states fought over whether or not slavery should be allowed in the new territories
Answer:
The case referred to in the question is Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Explanation:
Dred Scott was an eslaved man from Virginia who worked for a few years in Huntsville, Alabama. Years later he was taken by his owners to the Missouri territory.
Because the most of the Missouri territory was designated as "free", when his owners tried to take him back slave territory, Dred Scott sued them arguing that having set foot in free territory, he was now a freeman.
The Supreme Court ruled against him: it ruled that black people were not citizens and could not seek the protections and rights that the U.S. constitution granted to citizens.
The correct answer is C. The existence of racially prejudiced attitudes found in areas of the United States.
Racially prejudice attitudes were really common and the Civil Rights movement helped to reduce them. This can be seen in:
- racial segregation on public transportation - fought by the Civil Rights Movement with the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- discriminatory economic policies in Alabama City - fought by the Civil Rights Movement with the Birmingham Campaign.
- lack of voting rights - fought by the Civil Right Movement on many marches, especially the Bloody Sunday
The humid climate of the south was fantastic for growing tobacco and cotton, the south adopted an economic model similar to that of the English landed gentry (and many other countries.) that was hardly diversified at all because of the prime agricultural location the south was in.
Answer:
In the longer term, the rise of Turkish power in Anatolia eventually gave rise to the Ottoman Empire which rapidly conquered the former Byzantine heartland over the course of the 14th and 15th centuries, culminating in the Fall of Constantinople to the army of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror in 1453.
