LESSON INTRODUCTION Elsewhere in New England

A growing number of English settlers spread farther onto Indian land.

The Indians believed land was to be shared, not owned, but the settlers thought they had taken control from the Indians. Indian resentment of spreading English settlement soon led to war.

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