SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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300
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3000
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30
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none of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Historian Kenneth Winn, who was the Missouri state archivist when a court clerk found that at least 306 freedom suits were brought by slaves in St. Louis.
Detailed explanation-2: -Freedom suits were lawsuits in the Thirteen Colonies and the United States filed by slaves against slaveholders to assert claims to freedom, often based on descent from a free maternal ancestor, or time held as a resident in a free state or territory.
Detailed explanation-3: -Because of Missouri’s long-standing “once free, always free” judicial standard in determining freedom suits, slaves who were taken to such areas were freed-even if they returned to the slave state of Missouri. Once the bonds of slavery were broken, they did not reattach.
Detailed explanation-4: -Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.