Analyzing a Seminal US Document

Question 1

Question 1

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Question 2

Which statement provides the best counterclaim to Taney’s claim?

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D: Because they were born in the United States, Dred Scott and his family were citizens and had all the rights granted by the Constitution.

Question 3

What type of fallacy or faulty reasoning is used in this passage?

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A: ad populum

Question 4

How does Taney use this appeal to emotion to support his argument?

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A: The appeal praises the virtues of the writers of the document Taney uses as evidence.

Question 5

What type of fallacy or faulty reasoning is used in this passage?

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D: hasty generalization

Question 6

Which statement best explains the fallacy in the argument?

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A: Taney is quick to assume that the writers of the US Constitution excluded African Americans born in the country from citizenship.

Question 7

Which evidence best supports Curtis’s opinion that Dred Scott should be free because he lived in a free territory? Check all that apply.

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A: “The Constitution refers to slaves as ‘persons held to service in one State’”; E: “Acts of Congress as prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude within that part of the Territory of Wisconsin . . . were constitutional and valid laws.”

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