SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Kept as a slave
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Granted Freedom
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -On May 26, 1857, Dred and Harriet Scott appeared in the St. Louis Circuit Court and were formally freed; Judge Alexander Hamilton approved the papers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although slavery was illegal in the Wisconsin Territory, Scott remained a slave at Fort Snelling from his arrival through his departure in April 1838.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1846, an enslaved Black man named Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, sued for their freedom in St. Louis Circuit Court. They claimed that they were free due to their residence in a free territory where slavery was prohibited. The odds were in their favor.
Detailed explanation-4: -He ultimately sued for his freedom on the grounds that his residence on free soil had liberated him from the bonds of slavery. Abolitionists aided Scott’s effort. Francis Murdoch, for example, helped launch the lawsuits of Scott and his wife, Harriet Scott.
Detailed explanation-5: -Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, he resided in Illinois (a free state) and in the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820.