Dred Scott was a slave whose master brought him into a free state so he tried to due his master saying that he was free. They decided that African Americans cannot sue in supreme courts and Mabye lower courts.
Dredd Scott had been a slave in the antebellum era of the United States. When his owner died and Scott had been living in states were there as no slavery, he sued to become a free man and not to be an inheritance of his late owners wife. After years of litigation his case came to the US Supreme Court. In 1857, the Court ruled that Scott was still a slave, and because he was Black, could never become a US citizen. The Court also ruled that Scott, not being a citizen, could not seek redress in the US court system. The Court ruled that in a paraphrase, that slavery was legal in the US and that Congress or states could not pass laws concerning slavery until the US Constitution was amended.
No He didnt because he is an african american. Back then they wasnt human to them so he lost. Later in his life he became free
Stayed in slavery until 1865, when slavery was aboloshed. After that, he worked as a porter on the railroad.
John brown raided Harper's ferry
Scott was a slave and could not win suit.
Scott was a slave and could not win suit.
The origins of the Dred Scott case are due to the I.C.U.P organization
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Dred Scott (1795 - September 17, 1858), was an African-American slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as "the Dred Scott Decision
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The Dred Scott case effected the nation.It effect the nation by causing it to split the nation.
John Sandford did not win the Dred Scott case. The case was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857 with Chief Justice Roger Taney writing the majority opinion. The court's decision was that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not considered American citizens and had no standing to bring a lawsuit in federal court.
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.