Why is there such interest in and such vehe- ment disagreement about the population of
native peoples of the Americas in the pre-
contact period?

If the united states became a "majority-minority” nation, o whites would be the majority, but there would still be ethnic minorities. there would be an equal number of whites and ethnic minorities. othere would be more ethnic minorities in the population than whites. o no one would be considered white or part of an ethnic minority group.

Which statement in the passage best reflects sumer's opinion of the dred scott decision? a."i speak what cannot be denied." b."[the] judgment was sustained by a falsification of history." b."the opinion was more thoroughly abominable than anything history." i speak what cannot be denied when i declare that the opinion of the chief justice in the case of dred scott was more thoroughly abominable than anything of the kind in the history of courts. judicial baseness reached its lowest point on that occasion. you have not forgotten that terrible decision where a most unrighteous judgment was sustained by a falsification of history. -charles sumner, 1865

4. choose one of the protagonists and explain how he advances the plot of his particularnarrative. how does the combination of his internal and external conflicts move the storyalong? who is the antagonist in the narrative?