Andrew Hamilton defended John Peter Zenger and free speech because he knew how fundamental free speech and the ability to speak against the government was to the health of the relatively new United States--which prided itself on liberty.
He found it necessary because Lincoln was only transferring food to the Northern army at the fort. However, once the ship came to the fort, it was believed (or assumed) by the south that inside the ship were supplies of weapons, soldiers, anything besides food. The South then opened fire, catching the North off guard and the first battle of the Civil war began.
70 precent of people since it was the only legal one
They were “of low physical and mental standards.” They were “filthy.” They were “often dangerous in their habits.” They were “un-American.”
“The view was they could not fit into the American orientation toward progress and doing better, and would be forever manual laborers stuck at the very bottom,” Diner said of attitudes toward Southern Italians. She said Jews, by contrast, were viewed as “a little too successful, a little too pushy, getting on that American track too fast. They were viewed as competitors.”
Sacajawea has the Native American woman that helped Lewis and Clark, mainly due to her brother being the leader of a tribe, which they needed to borrow horses from.
