SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Born in Southampton, Virginia, around 1800, Dred Scott was a slave of Peter Blow. With Blow and the rest of his family, Scott migrated to the Midwest, arriving in St. Louis in 1830. Scott was eventually sold to army doctor John Emerson, with whom he would go to Illinois and then into the Wisconsin Territory.
Detailed explanation-2: -Emerson for the next twelve years, traveling with him to other assigned posts in Illinois, the Wisconsin Territory, and at Fort Snelling in what became Minnesota-all places where slavery was prohibited. At Fort Snelling, Dred Scott met and married Harriet Robinson, also a slave, and they had two children.
Detailed explanation-3: -Their owner-by then Taylor Blow-freed them on May 26, 1857. Dred Scott died of tuberculosis less than a year later. Harriet Robinson Scott remained in St. Louis as a free woman.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dred Scott, (born c. 1799, Southampton county, Virginia, U.S.-died September 17, 1858, St. Louis, Missouri), African American slave at the centre of the U.S. Supreme Court’s pivotal Dred Scott decision of 1857 (Dred Scott v.