After the Supreme Court ruled in the Africans favor for the first time, many smaller courts took African American cases more seriously instead of just ruling in the whites favor, for racial and social reasons alike. Even though it was much later that women started to stand up for themselves, the Amistad case was the push that gave many different racial groups and women the confidence they needed to fight for their own civil rights. Also many of the colonies that the Monroe Doctrine protected have become prosperous countries today, like Mexico, which has the 55th largest economy in the world according to the 2014 economic index. These many cases that John Quincy fought for drastically changed the worlds perspective and laws for many groups of people.