SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Eliza Emerson
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The Supreme Court
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Peter Blow
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Peter Blow’s children
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Detailed explanation-1: -Upset upon learning his wife still owned the most infamous slave of the time, he sold Scott and his family to Taylor Blow, the son of Peter Blow, Scott’s original owner. Taylor freed Scott and his family on May 26, 1857.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -During this period, Dred Scott married Harriet Robinson, also a slave, at Fort Snelling; they later had four children, two boys that died in infancy and two girls, Eliza and Lizzie.