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You're probably thinking of the Dred Scott case.
Scott was a slave who applied for his freedom on the grounds that he had once been taken on to free soil, before returning to slave country.
Local judges had not dealt with this kind of application before, so the case reached the Supreme Court.
Here the Chief Justice decided to invoke the Constitution as he thought the Founding Fathers had meant it. When they had declared that a man's property was sacred, they would have included slaves in their definition of property.
This appeared to mean that slavery was legal in every state of the Union.
The decision split the nation even further than it was already, and brought the Civil War closer.
What else can I help you with?
Who began his artist career by documenting the civil war?
Francis Scott Key
The case that helped precipitate the Civil War was?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Did the case of Scott make things better or worser?
Scott's case made things worser because of all of slaves not having heir freedom it lead them to the civil war.
Was dred scott in the civil war?
No he did not fight in the Civil War
How did the Dred Scott v. Sandford case contribute to the outbreak of the Civil War?
The Dred Scott v. Sandford case contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War by ruling that African Americans were not considered citizens and therefore did not have the right to sue in federal court. This decision heightened tensions between the North and South over the issue of slavery and states' rights, ultimately fueling the conflict that led to the Civil War.
Was winfeild Scott part of the confederacy or union in the civil war?
At the start of the Civil War, Winfield Scott was the Commanding General of the Union Army.
Was Dred Scott alive during the Civil War?
No
What court case determind that slaves were not US citizens in the Civil War?
The slave Dred Scott. This was before the war - and one of the causes of it, because it divided the two sides further and raised the temperature of the debate.
Did the Dred Scott case lead to anything bigger?
It raised the temperature of the slavery debate, and it led to something much bigger in the shape of the Civil War.
How did the Dred Scott case affect the development of the US?
The case actually made slavery legal, so that meant that within a few years that there would have to be a solution to slavery. This lead to the civil war.
Did the Dred Scott Decision led to the civil war?
No it did not but in histroy it did.
Did dred Scott fight in the civil war?
No. He was still a slave.
