Divided the nation even further, by declaring that slavery was legal in every state of the Union, according to the Chief Justice's reading of the Constitution.
The slave's name was Dred Scott
The Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sanford did not decide if Dred Scott was a slave or not, but that slaves (and their descendants) could not be counted as US citizens and had no right to sue in court.
That Scott had no right to argue in court
in the Washington D.C. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court met in Washington, D.C. when it decided the Dred Scott case. It has met in Washington for every case since February 1801.
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supreme court of Missouri
Dred Scott's case made it to the Supreme Court because he sued for his freedom after living in a free state and a free territory with his owner. The case went through several lower courts before ultimately being appealed to the Supreme Court.
The ruling in the Dred Scott case allowed slave owners to take their slaves with them into the Western territories of the United States.
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