On this day in 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, there by negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.
answered: Guest
assuming that by westerners you mean americans. that they were mean and controlling and abusive to its peasants.
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answered: Guest
February 1848 is when it was added. if that's what you were asking