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Yes, it was referred to higher authority, because it was a complex issue - a slave who had been employed on free soil, where he could have applied for his freedom, but didn't, and was then taken back into slave country.
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What political stand did Dred Scott take answer?
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man who went to court to sue for his freedom. The court case, known as Dred Scott v. Sandford, ultimately ruled against him and declared that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not considered American citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court.
Where did the first case of dred Scott take place?
supreme court of Missouri
Why did Dred Scott's new owners take his case to court to win his freedom rather than just freeing him themselves?
They didn't take him to court 'to win his freedom'. HE took THEM to court, to apply for his freedom on the basis that his previous owner (their deceased relative) had taken him on to free soil, where Scott would have been granted his freedom automatically, if he had applied at that time. The local courts had never dealt with a retrospective application of this kind, and that is how the case arrived at the Supreme Court.
What did the supreme. court rule in the dred Scott case?
The ruling in the Dred Scott case allowed slave owners to take their slaves with them into the Western territories of the United States.
What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case?
The ruling in the Dred Scott case allowed slave owners to take their slaves with them into the Western territories of the United States.
What did the supreme court ruling the dred Scott case establish?
The ruling in the Dred Scott case allowed slave owners to take their slaves with them into the Western territories of the United States.
How many years did it take for Dred Scott v Sandford to reach the Supreme Court?
Who no da answer
What caused Southern slave owners to be happy with the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision?
Southern slave owners were happy with the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision because it allowed them to take their slaves into slave free territories and not give up ownership. The case undermined local sovereignty.
What years did the Dred Scott decision take place prior to the Civil War?
The Dred Scott decision or Dred Scott v. Sandford, took place in 1857. His case was based on the fact that he and his wife Harriet Scott were slaves, but had lived in states and territories where slavery was illegal, including Illinois and Minnesota (which was then part of the Wisconsin Territory). Dred Scott lost the case when The United States Supreme Court ruled seven to two, on the grounds that he, nor any person of African ancestry, could claim citizenship in the United States, and that therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules.
Why did dred scott help cause the civil war?
The Dred Scott Case, during the Civil War, was a large controversy about African America rights and freedoms and whether they applied in "free states" that didn't allow slavery. See answer to "Who was Dred Scott" :)
What was the decision of the supremem court case dred Scott v sanford?
The Court interpreted the Constitution, as they believed the Founding Fathers would have meant. A man's property was sacred. Slaves were property. Therefore slavery was legal in every state of the Union. It added that a black man could not be a citizen of the USA, and could not take a white man to court. So Dred Scott's owners had no case to answer.
Who is the slave that sued after being takeninto free territory by owner?
the owner didnt take him there his owner died and he fled. his name is Dred Scott and he lost the dred Scott case.
