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What did roger B Taney do that increased regional tension in the US during the 1850s?
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He passed judgment in the case of Dred Scott, a slave who was trying to sue for his freedom on the grounds that he had been living on free soil for some years before being brought back to slave country.
Taney surprised many people by interpreting the Constitution in the spirit in which the founding fathers had meant it. So he declared that a man's property (including slave property) was sacred, and that a black man was not the sort of person who ought to be suing a white man anyway.
This delighted the South, as it appeared to mean that slavery could not be banned from any state. But it greatly offended Northern abolitionists, and drove the two sides further apart.
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