Go to the websites listed below and then answer the questions that follow.

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856)
(http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=60&invol=393)
Complete text of Chief Justice Roger Taney's opinion in the case argued before the Supreme Court in 1855.

Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
(http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=347&invol=483)
Complete text of Chief Justice Earl Warren's opinion in the case argued before the Supreme Court in 1952.

Frederick Douglass: The Hypocrisy of American Slavery, July 4, 1852
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/douglass-hypo.html)
A speech delivered by Douglass on Independence Day, an indictment of the nation that was celebrating freedom and independence at the same time it had slaves.

1			What was the main reason the Supreme Court made the decision it did in the Dred Scott case? What contribution did the decision in this case make to the events that unfolded over the course of the decade or so that followed?
2			Explain the importance of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Court's decision in Brown.
3			Was Frederick Douglass's role in history one that could be emulated today by someone? What would such a person say to the America of today and why?