Federal government has the highest authority
Answer:
<em>Abraham Lincoln, John Breckenridge, John Bell, And Stephen Douglas</em>
Explanation:
<em>Abraham Lincoln → National Union Party → Lincoln was morally opposed to slavery </em>
<em>John Breckenridge → Democratic Party → Had publicly declared his opposition to "impairing in any form" the legal protection of slavery.</em>
<em>John Bell → Democratic Party → Bell opposed efforts to expand slavery to the U.S. territories.</em>
<em>Stephen Douglas → Democratic Party → Douglas believed that popular sovereignty would defuse the tension between the proslavery and antislavery factions.</em>
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The Homestead Act of 1862 pulled settlers to the plains by offering 160 free acres of federal land to any American, including freed slaves.
Answer: A. The abolitionist movement grew stronger.
<em>Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)</em> was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. It held that black people whose ancestors were imported into the U.S., whether enslaved of free, could not be American citizens. Therefore, they could not sue in federal court. Moreover, it ruled that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the territories acquired after the creation of the United States.
The decision was controversial, and greatly opposed by abolitionist groups. It strengthened the abolitionist movement and may have been a catalyst for the American Civil War.
