Dred Scott was a slave. His owner took him outside the south and through states that did not allow slavery. These states had rules that any enslaved person brought into the state became free. Dred Scott sued to try to win his freedom.
The Dred Scott case had a very broad and damaging outcome. The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott, a negro, had no rights whatsoever. He was property, not a person or a citizen. He had no right to sue in federal court. Further, the court ruled that the federal government had no legal right to interfere with the institution of slavery. Slavery advocates were encouraged and began to make plans to expand slavery into all of the western territories and states. This created much of the tension that caused the Civil War.
Quick Facts
The case citation is Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 US 393 (1857)
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Dred Scott v. Sandford : 1857 .
Dred Scott vs.Sanford
in the Washington D.C. Supreme Court
Dred Scott was found guilty in the Dred Scott v. Sanford case. This caused the African Americans to not be allowed to fight for freedom in court.
The origins of the Dred Scott case are due to the I.C.U.P organization
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The Dred Scott case effected the nation.It effect the nation by causing it to split the nation.
No, the 14th Amendment supersedes the Dred Scott decision.
Dred Scott v. Sandford : 1857 .
The slave's name was Dred Scott
The Dred Scott case was decided in 1857.
The Dred Scott case took about eleven years to be resolved. The case began in Missouri in 1846.
1857
The chief justice in the Dred Scott case was Roger B. Taney.
He decided that people ofAfrican descent imported into the u.s. and there descendants were not citizens so they did not have legal rights to sue.