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SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861

DRED SCOTT

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Read the Quotation The legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves, nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people.-Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857 This quotaation from the Supreme Court ruling in the Scott v. Sandford case relates to the
A
lack of citizenship for free or enslaved African Americans.
B
practice of importing enslaved workers from Africa.
C
practice of relocating from a slave state to a free state.
D
right of an owner to retain his or her property.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In this ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a Federal territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-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.

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