SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
DRED SCOTT
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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It declared protective tariffs unconstitutional.
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It gave states the right to secede from the Union.
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It protected the rights of slave owners.
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It declared Kansas to be a slave state.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Southerners approved the Dred Scott decision believing Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in the territories. Abraham Lincoln reacted with disgust to the ruling and was spurred into political action, publicly speaking out against it.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Dred Scott Decision outraged abolitionists, who saw the Supreme Court’s ruling as a way to stop debate about slavery in the territories. The divide between North and South over slavery grew and culminated in the secession of southern states from the Union and the creation of the Confederate States of America.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dred Scott, an enslaved African American, had resided in slave states (Virginia and Missouri) as well as in a free state (Illinois) and a free territory (the Wisconsin Territory). He ultimately sued for his freedom on the grounds that his residence on free soil had liberated him from the bonds of slavery.