Select the correct answer. Read the excerpt below: In the opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves, nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people, nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument. — Roger Taney, from Dred Scott v. Sandford Which conclusion can you draw about attitudes toward African Americans from this excerpt? A. People believed that African Americans were not equal to White people. B. People believed that African Americans would achieve equality when slavery ended. C. People believed that only free African Americans should have equal rights. D. People believed that legislation needed to be written to protect African Americans.

In the opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that neither the class of persons who had been imported as sla-ves, nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of of the people, nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument. Roger Taney, from Dred Scott v. Sandford.

Conclusion that can be drawn from the attitude toward African American from this excerpt is that People believed that African Americans were not equal to White people.

Who was Roger Taney?

Roger Brooke Taney (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth chief justice of the United States, he holed that office from 1836 until his death in 1864.

Roger delivered the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which became controversy, ruling that African Americans could not be considered U.S. citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the U.S. territories. Prior to joining the U.S. Supreme Court, Roger served as the U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson.

Who was Dred Scott v. Sandford?

Dred Scott was born in a sla-ve in Vir ginia around 1799. His family serves, Peter Blow, moved to Alabama in 1818, taking his six sla-ves along to work a farm near Huntsville. In 1830,

Peter gave up farming and settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where he sold Scott to U.S. Army surgeon Dr. John Emerson.

After Scott sold to Emerson, he took him to Fort Armstrong in Illinois. A free state, Illinois had been free as a territory under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, and there Scott prohibited sla-very in its constitution in 1819 when it was admitted as a state.

Dred Scott v. Sandford go against for a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that the United States Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for people of African descent, regardless of whether they were ensla-ved or free, and so the rights and privileges that the Constitution confers upon American citizens could not apply to them.

Hence, Option A is correct.

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