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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" :)
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoHis file suit (the Dred Scott VS John Stanford or Dred Scott Decision) tried to give him his freedom. He said that since he was in a free state shouldn't he also be free? But when Taney overruled him in the court his opinion was that black men were not citizens. Abolitionists were outraged and even though Taney had been working for 29 years his reputation was ruined due to his opinions even after the jury ruled that Scott be free. This decision pushed the states further into the Civil War.
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∙ 11y agoBecause he had failed to apply for his freedom when he was living on free soil (when it would have been granted automatically), and applied for it later when he was back in slave country.
The local judges had never dealt with this kind of application before, and that was how it reached the Supreme Court.
The Chief Justice declared that the Constitution protected a man's property, slaves were property, therefore slavery was legal in every state of the Union.
This verdict divided the nation and brought war closer.
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∙ 11y agoNothing Dred Scott died in 1858,years before the war.
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∙ 11y agoHe probably hastened it, given that the Supreme Court's decision in his lawsuit further polarized the pro- and anti-slavery forces.
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∙ 11y agoThe Dred Scott Decision helped to precipitate the Civil War, but did not take place during it.
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How did dred Scott help end slavery?
His case.
How did the dred Scott decision help start the civil war?
It drove the two sides further apart. The Supreme Court declared that slavery was legal in every state of the Union. This delighted the South as much as it angered the Abolitionists.
How did the Dred Scott decision regulate the spread of slavery?
The Dred Scott versus Sandford ruling also called the Dred Scott Decision, help to regulate and spread the effects of slavery faster because it said that as slaves these people were not really citizens and as such had no rights to sue anyone. The law went on to say that the government had no way to enforce any rulings to stop slavery in states or areas that were created before the states became unified.
Did the Dred Scott Decision help end slavery or continue it?
No. That is, you could make a case that it did both of those things, but in fact it didn't directly do either.
Who decided to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional?
(cause they were confused or something)- .... _this was the privous responce to this question which gave me no help so i decide to help. In the Dred Scott v. Sandford case in 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress did not have authority to prohibit slavery in territories, and that those provisions of the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional. It found that under the admission act of Missouri, that blacks and mulattos did not qualify as citizens of the United States.
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Who helped dread Scott?
Prior to and during the Dred Scott case, only the lawyer who represented him gave him any help. The Supreme Court ruled that no African Americans, whether free or enslaved, had citizenship in the United States, a decision that enraged abolitionists and empowered slave holders. After the decision, Scott's owner married an abolitionist, who persuaded her to return Scott and his family to his original owners. By this time, his original owners were also anti-slavery, and he and his family were freed.
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Which supreme court case ruled that slaves were property?
Dred Scott v. Sanford*, 60 US 393 (1857)In the Dred Scott decision, the Court held that slaves were chattel (property). Slaves, as well as people who had been slaves, or who descended from slaves, were not protected by the Constitution and could never be US citizens. Without citizenship status, African-Americans were denied access to the courts, and couldn't sue for their freedom, even if they had a contractual agreement granting them free status.The Supreme Court also ruled that Congress had no right to prohibit slavery, nullifying the Missouri Compromise.The Court's decision in this case was overturned by the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery.* The name Sanford is misspelled as "Sandford" in US ReportsAnswerThat was the Dred Scott decision - concerning the status of a slave who had been taken on to free soil, and then back to slave country.The Supreme Court declared that a black man should have no business suing a white man.More ominously, it also ruled that slavery was protected by the Constitution. Taken literally, this would mean that there was no such thing as free soil.These two aspects of the Supreme Court ruling helped to raise the temperature of the debate, and made war virtually inevitable.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
