Expansion brought Rome into contact with many diverse cultures. The most important of these was the Greek culture in the eastern Mediterranean with its highly refined literature and learning. Many were reared from infancy by Greek-speaking slaves and later tutored by Greek slaves or freedmen.
There were both economic and political issues involved in the decision of Southern states to secede. The Supreme court’s decision in Dred Scott’s case spread the detonants starting in the strengthened Northern opposition to slavery, the internal divisions of Democratic Party and the reinforcement of the Republican Party which won elections with Lincoln leading them. Southern states gave their own interpretation to the supreme court’s decision and gave passage to the Kansas-Nebraska act, permitting every state to accept slavery or not . An important economic consequence was the beginning of the “Panic of 1857” crisis which started with railroads and big Northern bank collapses due to uncertainly slavery policies.
D, proved that there was severe social and judicial bias against immigrants in the US. Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists, and many believe that they were unjustly tried and executed because of that
Manifest destiny and federal expansion
