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How did northeners and southerners react to the Dred Scott decision?
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∙ 12y ago
Quite differently - and it drove the two sides even further apart, bringing war closer.
The Supreme Court declared that slavery was protected by the Constitution (i.e. the sanctity of a man's property included slave property), so the Missouri Compromise was not valid. In other words, slavery could not be banned from any state of the Union.
Naturally, this delighted the Southerners, who thought they could see a prospect of a coast-to-coast slave empire.
The Abolitionists were greatly offended - even more so, as the Court had ruled that a black man could not be an American citizen. And even Northerners who had little interest in the slavery issue did not welcome the prospect of slavery on their doorstep.
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