SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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The Missouri Compromise declared that an enslaved person gained his or her freedom upon entering a free state
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The Missouri Compromise drew a dividing line between slave states and free states
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The Missouri Compromise declared that when a slave state entered the Union, a free state must enter as well
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The Missouri Compromise determined the number of free and slave states in the Union
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Missouri Compromise declared that an enslaved person gained his or her freedom upon entering a free state. Explanation: The very purpose of the very compromise was to balance the number of slave and frees states for which it allowed union to enter as a slave on the other hand Maine as a free state.
Detailed explanation-2: -In addition, Dred Scott had not become a free man as a result of his residence at Fort Snelling because the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional; Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in the federal territories.
Detailed explanation-3: -The decision involved the case of Dred Scott, an enslaved black man whose owners had taken him from Missouri, a slave-holding state, into Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, where slavery was illegal.
Detailed explanation-4: -By passing the law, which President James Monroe signed, the U.S. Congress admitted Missouri to the Union as a state that allowed slavery, and Maine as a free state. It also banned slavery from the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands located north of the 36º 30’ parallel (the southern border of Missouri).
Detailed explanation-5: -This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. It also outlawed slavery above the 36º 30’ latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.