SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Dred Scott
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John Sanford
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Both sides
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Neither side
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Detailed explanation-1: -Missouri’s Dred Scott Case, 1846-1857. In its 1857 decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-2: -Slaves who went to a free state became free. Dred Scott went with his master, Dr. John Emerson, to Illinois and Wisconsin, which were free areas because of a measure called the Missouri Compromise. Because of this Dred Scott felt he should be free, and he asked the Court to grant him that right.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford was issued on March 6, 1857. Delivered by Chief Justice Roger Taney, this opinion declared that African Americans were not citizens of the United States and could not sue in Federal courts.
Detailed explanation-4: -By 1824, the courts in Missouri established the precedent of “once free, always free", ruling that slaves taken voluntarily by masters into free states gained their freedom according to those states’ laws, and could not be returned to slavery if the master brought the person to the slave state of Missouri.