MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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slavery might become legal everywhere
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slavery might be banned everywhere
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formerly enslaved people would move to the North
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formerly enslaved people would stay in the South
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Detailed explanation-1: -The opinion of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney further declared African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States. The Supreme Court’s denial of Scott’s plea immediately became a violently divisive issue in national politics. It provoked outrage in the antislavery North.
Detailed explanation-2: -In this ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a Federal territory.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the North, legislatures and Republican politicians responded to the Dred Scott decision by questioning whether this was a Supreme Court decision that they should abide by–one of the issues that was clearly at stake in the Lincoln-Douglas debates.