The North was upset because the decision declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. - Novanet
The North was upset because the decision declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. - Novanet
The North was upset because the decision declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. - Novanet
The North was upset because the decision declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. - Novanet
The North was upset because the decision declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. - Novanet
The Dred Scott decision electrified the the nation. chief justice Roger B. tanry said the Dred Scott was still a slave.
they said that he was a piece of property and could not sue for his freedom
The Dred Scott decision demonstrated that there was no single nation any more. The South certainly wasn't upset by any decision that declared slavery to be legal, and that the new territories could not vote to join the USA as free-soil states. It was North that was upset at the suggestion that every state in the Union could, in theory, practise slavery. They were also displeased by the way the judgment was worded - that the Chief Justice reckoned a black man had no business taking a white man to court.
The Dred Scott decision declared that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens and overturned the Missouri Compromise, inflaming tensions over slavery expansion. Many in the North were upset because they believed the decision further entrenched slavery and undermined the rights of African Americans.
Southerners were delighted with the Dred Scott decision, but northerners were outraged.
It appeared to mean that slavery was legal in every state of the Union, so that all the compromises had been invalid. (novanet) the north was upset because the decision declared the missouri compromise to be unconstitutional
Southerners benefited the most from the Dred Scott Decision.
The Dred Scott case effected the nation.It effect the nation by causing it to split the nation.