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The Supreme Court’s Insertion in Politics: Dred Scott

In arguably one of the most controversial opinions of the United States Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney’s opinion in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) contributed to the Panic of 1857 and defined the debates of the Illinois senate race in 1858 between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.

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The Origins of WWI

Beginning in the mid-19th century, aggressive German military expansion and aggressive, ill-conceived foreign policy created tension and fear among the neighboring European nations. As a result of the personalities of the leaders of these nations and the entangled military and economic alliances among the same countries, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand became the first domino in a series of events which culminated in “the war to end all wars.”

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