SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Let The Scotts Buy Their Freedom
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Live With The Scotts
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Escort the Scotts to Court
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Give the Scotts Medicine for Their Sick Child
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why do you think that Mrs. Emerson didn’t give the Scotts their freedom herself? Maybe she couldn’t afford it. The root issue of the tensions resulting from the Dred Scott decision was the rights of the individual.
Detailed explanation-2: -Scott sued Mrs. Emerson for “false imprisonment” and battery. Scott argued that he was being held illegally because he had become a free man as soon as he had lived in a free state. He claimed he was taken to a slave state against his will.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856) In a decision that later was nullified by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Supreme Court held that former slaves did not have standing in federal courts because they lacked U.S. citizenship, even after they were freed.