It's a kind of long decision, but essentially it says that African-Americans are not and cannot be citizens because they are property. It then says that it is unconstitutional to declare some states to be "free states" (where slavery was banned), because then a slaveowner who traveled to that state with his slaves, and thus lost possession of them, would have had his property taken away from him without due process (5th amendment). It strikes down the Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional, and was a major factor leading to the Civil War.
The ruling in the Dred Scott case allowed slave owners to take their slaves with them into the Western territories of the United States.
That Scott had no right to argue in 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.
The ruling in the Dred Scott case allowed slave owners to take their slaves with them into the Western territories of the United States.
That all black people are banned from this country.
That all black people are banned from this country.
That all black people are banned from this country.
That all black people are banned from this country.
That blacks were inferior and had no rights
Dred Scott v. Sandford,* 60 US 393 (1857)*Sandford is misspelled in the court documents; the respondent's real last name was Sanford.
In Dred Scott, the U.S. Supreme Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court.
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