RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Marbury v. Madison
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
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Worcester v. Georgia
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Detailed explanation-1: -The decision of Scott v. Sandford, considered by many legal scholars to be the worst ever rendered by the Supreme Court, was overturned by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution, which abolished slavery and declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens of the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the Supreme Court’s decision, the former master’s sons purchased Scott and his wife and set them free. Dred Scott died nine months later.
Detailed explanation-3: -Who was Dred Scott? Dred Scott was an enslaved person who accompanied his owner, an army physician, to postings in a free state (Illinois) and free territory (Wisconsin) before returning with him to the slave state of Missouri. In 1846 Scott and his wife, aided by antislavery lawyers, sued for their freedom in a St.