The Dred Scott decision repealed the Missouri Compromise because it was said to deny a man's right to property and that it is unconstitutional. The decision legalized slavery everywhere, and the Missouri Compromise said that there equal free states and slave states, and so now all states are slave states.
After the Dread Scott case the Supreme Court declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional
An unexpected ruling about the Constitution and its view of slavery. The court reckoned that when the Founding Fathers declared that a man's property was sacred, they would have included slaves within their definition of property. If so, then slavery must be legal in every state of the Union. This judgment drove the two sides further apart than ever.
The final decision in the Dred Scott case, delivered by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857, ruled that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, could not be considered citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court. Additionally, the Court declared that the Missouri Compromise, which had prohibited slavery in certain territories, was unconstitutional, effectively allowing slavery to spread into new territories. This decision intensified national tensions over slavery and contributed significantly to the events leading up to the Civil War.
In the Dred Scott v. Sandford case, the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States, and therefore could not sue in federal court. The decision also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, stating that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories. This decision further fueled tensions between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions leading up to the Civil War.
Dred Scott sued for his freedom because he argued that his time spent in free territories should have made him a free man under the law. He believed he was entitled to freedom due to his residence in areas where slavery was prohibited by the Missouri Compromise.
The verdict by the Supreme Court appeared to mean that all property, including slave property, was sacred, and that no state could declare itself to be free soil.
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They both raised the temperature of the slavery debate. The first included a toughening-up of the Fugitive Slave Act, which caused an emotive reaction in the North. The second declared that slavery was protected by the constitution, which seemed to end any hopes of letting new states vote on whether to be slave or free.
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It declared slavery to be lawful in every state of the Union. Its effect was to heighten the dispute betwen the two sides, and to help bring on the Civil War - which eventually freed all the slaves.
The judge's ruling in the Dred Scott case stated that slaves and freed slaves were not US citizens. Thus they had no power to sue in court and the federal government could not control slavery.