in 1857, northerners who opposed slavery received another shock when the supreme court ruled against a slave named dred scott who was suing for his freedom. scott's owners had brought him with them from the south to a northern free state to live. the court declared that it did not matter whether scott lived in a slave state or a free state, because slaves were property and owners could take their property wherever they pleased.
most southerners were happy with the ruling, which meant that slavery could be extended into any territory, whether voters approved of it or not.
dred scott and his family, pictured in a newspaper article about the case. image
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generalplan ost
generalplan ost (english: master plan for the east) was a secret nazi plan for the colonization and exploitation of eastern europe. the plan called for the extermination, expulsion, or enslavement of most of the slavic populations of eastern europe, including poland, ukraine, belarus, and the soviet union. the plan was part of the broader nazi goal of creating lebensraum (living space) for the aryan race.
the plan was developed by a group of nazi officials, led by heinrich himmler and including adolf eichmann and alfred rosenberg. it was presented to adolf hitler in 1941, and he gave his approval. however, the plan was never fully implemented due to the course of the war.
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westward expansion
it was an idea romanticized by some americans. the woman represents "american progress" leading settlers toward land and success. the print shows the stagecoaches once used to transport mail and passengers, the railroads that replaced them, and the "prairie schooner" wagons in which pioneers traveled with their belongings. the open landscape was originally home to indians and the buffalo they hunted, but settlers had arrived to farm the land. image
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instagram
it allows you to change its app icon to celebrate instagram's tenth birthday.
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here's an example of how it works.