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What case determined that African-American slaves were not citizens?
This was the finding of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case (1857).
Who was the slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court was?
Dred Scott
What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case?
The ruling in the Dred Scott case allowed slave owners to take their slaves with them into the Western territories of the United States.
What was the Supreme Court ruling in dred Scott's case?
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.
What is a court case brought from a lower court to a higher court called?
An appeal.
What is the Dead Scott case?
You mean Dred Scott versus Sanford - this was a Supreme Court case that ruled that African American people brought to the states as slaves could never be citizens. The case was tried in 1857.
What was the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?
That Scott had no right to argue in court
Where was the dred Scott case held?
in the Washington D.C. Supreme Court
Did the supreme court declare Scott as a free man?
The US Supreme Court decision on the Dred Scott case resulted in the court making it clear that Scott could not be a free man and denied his case to be free of his slavery status. The Court declared that Scott was not a US citizen, and thus could not sue for his freedom.
What city did the Supreme Court neet to decide the Dred Scott v Sanford case?
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.
Who was the missionary to the Cherokee who brought their case to the supreme court?
Samuel Worcester .
What Supreme Court case stated that Congress did not have the right to ban slavery in states and that blacks were not citizens?
The Dread Scott case was the Supreme Court case the stated that Congress did not have the right to ban slavery in states and that blacks were not citizens.
What slave was denied freedom in a supreme court case?
The slave's name was Dred Scott
Where did the first case of dred Scott take place?
supreme court of Missouri
What supreme court divided the nation even more?
The Dred Scott case!!
What year was Dred Scott ruled a slave by the Supreme Court?
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.
How many people in the supreme court had slaves during the dred Scott case?
none
