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5 pages in length. The writer discusses social, political and economic impact of Dred Scott. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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merely ending slavery to seeking political equality and voting rights for the freedmen, as well as to maintain political stagnation in the South. On December 4, 1865, the Republican
majority Congress refused to seat recently-elected representatives from the South; instead, they appointed a Joint Committee of Fifteen as a means by which to inquire into the condition of the
former Confederate states. Subcommittees were sent to investigate the southern states. Northerners had grown increasingly sympathetic to the plight of the southern blacks following numerous well-publicized incidents in
which innocent blacks were harassed, beaten and killed. Dred Scott was an instrumental force in this ongoing progression. II. SOCIAL The extension of
suffrage to black males was a combined social and political move by the Republicans in Congress who believed that blacks would form the backbone of the southern Republican Party.
Black suffrage would prevent southern Democrats from winning elections in southern states, as well as uphold the Republican majority in Congress after the southern states rejoined the Union. It
is important for the student to realize that in order to achieve these goals, Congress passed the 14th Amendment declaring that all persons born or naturalized in the United States
were inherent citizens of their states; additionally, no state could override their rights without due process of law. This effectively nullified the Dred Scott decision that declared blacks were
not citizen (Chacon 45-70). There are myriad facets of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution that serve to protect those who are either born or naturalized in America,
not the least of which include due process, prisoners rights and educational equity. The five fundamental sections of Amendment 14 state that 1) the aforementioned United States citizens are
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