SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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held that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
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was a victory for the antislavery movement
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declared Scott a free man
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outlawed the interstate slave trade
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Detailed explanation-1: -The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that Congress had exceeded its authority in the Missouri Compromise because it had no power to forbid or abolish slavery in the territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′.
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: -The Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford was issued on March 6, 1857. Delivered by Chief Justice Roger Taney, this opinion declared that slaves were not citizens of the United States and could not sue in Federal courts.