Post your evidence (quotes) and the explanation for choosing that evidence in answering the questions about what do we mean by the term ‘American’ and who is an American? You should use your knowledge and experience as well to analyze how the answers to these questions have changed since the documents above were written.
Read the following documents in the packet provided:
1.Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens (1838)
2.Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July (1852)
3.Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, The Dred Scott Decision (1857)
Identify the best evidence (quotes) from each document which would help answer the questions above. Find 1-2 relevant quotes from each document.