SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
BLOODY KANSAS
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US Senator
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An African American who had lived in a free state for years, and sued for his freedom
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An African American who ran away from his home in Alabama and was captured and killed
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An abolitionist who spoke out against slavery throughout the United States
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1846, an enslaved Black man named Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, sued for their freedom in St. Louis Circuit Court. They claimed that they were free due to their residence in a free territory where slavery was prohibited.
Detailed explanation-3: -He is entitled to his freedom.” On April 6, 1846, Dred and Harriet Scott each filed separate petitions in suits against Irene Emerson in the St. Louis Circuit Court to obtain their freedom from slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for freedom for themselves and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the “Dred Scott decision".