It was not a change to the Constitution. It was an interpretation of one clause that impacted on the slavery question - the statement that a man's property was sacred.
The Supreme Court decided that the Founding Fathers would have included slaves within their definition of property. Therefore, slavery was legal in every state of the Union.
The Dred Scott decision stated that people of African decent imported to America were not citizens and not protected by the Constitution. The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments nullified that decision.
The Dred Scott decision
14th amendment
The admission of California to the Union - it was too big to be accommodated according to the terms of that compromise.
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13th amendment to the Constitution
It allowed slavery and found Scott to be property.
The Dred Scott decision stated that people of African decent imported to America were not citizens and not protected by the Constitution. The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments nullified that decision.
Southerners were delighted with the Dred Scott decision, but northerners were outraged.
Because it said slavery was protected by the Constitution.
Southerners benefited the most from the Dred Scott Decision.
Stonewell Jackson thought Dred Scott Decision was a supid idea
Dred Scott is a slave and sued his slave owner that if his in the north his freed from slavery. dred scott decision is when they said the Dred is just a slave and they are not citizen had no rights to sue their slave owners. this led to continue the civil wars against the north and the south
the dred scott decision stated that slaves are peoplealso and should'nt be property :D yurwelcomee
It declared that slavery was legal in every state of the Union according to the Constitution.
Southerners were delighted with the Dred Scott decision, but northerners were outraged.
It appeared to mean that slavery was protected by the Constitution, and could not be banned from any state of the Union.