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This was quite a sticky issue before the Civil War. The most famous legal battle over this was the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). Dred Scott was a slave who traveled with his master into Illinois, where slavery was illegal. Upon returning to Missouri, where it was legal, Scott sued his master for his freedom. The case eventually made it to SCOTUS, where Scott lost in a 7-2 decision, ultimately meaning that a slave could not be declared free if moved into a free territory. The case is considered by some to be the worst decision ever made by SCOTUS.
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Why did Dred Scott claim that he became a freeman by entering the Louisiana Territory?
Because the Louisiana Territory wasn't divided into free or slave states yet.
What was Elizabeth Freeman in the Revolutionary War?
she was a slave all her life until she broke free and moved to newyork city and became free
How did the Louisiana Purchase increase the likelihood of wars in the west?
As more of the Louisiana territory became states, the issue of slavery grew. For example, if a state wanted to enter the Union as a free state, there had to be a slave state to keep the # of slave and free states equal.
The Missouri compromise left most of the Louisana Purchase territory?
In 1820, the famous Missouri Compromise among American political leaders at the national level of government left most of the newly-acquired Louisiana Purchase territory free of slavery. In a bid to maintain balance among slave-holding and anti-slavery states, the Compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave-holding state, with areas south of Missouri also granted slave-holding privileges. The vast remainder of the Louisiana Territory was designated as 'slavery-free.'
Was California a free or a slave state and how was that decision made?
This vast territory extended so far on either side of the Missouri line that a new Compromise had to be worked out. To get California admitted as free soil, Congress had to make special concessions to the South, of which the most controversial was the Fugitive Slave Act, where official slave-catchers were appointed, to hunt down runaways. This raised the temperature of the debate, and certainly hastened the onset of civil war.
Was the Utah territory slave or free?
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Who is the slave that was brought into free territory?
Ferguson
Who was a slave that moved to a free territory lived there for four years and then sued for his freedom?
Dred Scott was a slave who, after moving to a free territory, lived there for four years before suing for his freedom in 1846. His case eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857, where the ruling stated that enslaved people were not entitled to freedom even if they resided in free territories.
Was there more free territory or slave territory reserved during The Missouri Compromise?
it was equal.
When was the turning point in dred Scotts life?
dred scott attempted to leave the state he lived in which was a slave state and moved to a free slave so he can be "free" but slave is property and cannot be free ,
The political balance between slave and free states as of 1819 was disturbed by?
The political balance between slave and free states as of 1819 was disturbed by the territory of Missouri's petition for admission to the Union as a slave state.
Slave who sued for his freedom after being taken into free territory by owner?
Dred Scott
What was the border between slave and free territory west of the Mississippi river?
The Missouri River
What slave who was living in a free territory for 4 years sue for his freedom?
dred scott
Once the free population of a territory topped 60 000 the settlers had the right to?
When the free population of a territory tops 60,000 settlers have the right to have a slave free state. This is a well known thing.
What happen when a slave is living in a free territory?
He could apply for his freedom, and it would be granted automatically.
The territory between Texas and kansas was more likely to become a free or a slave states?
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