He decided that people ofAfrican descent imported into the u.s. and there descendants were not citizens so they did not have legal rights to sue.
it made slavery and the western territory
It was taken all the way to the Supreme Court, where the Chief Justice issued the controversial decision.
According to Chief Justice Roger Taney's ruling on the Dred Scott case. Nothing is the answer. Dred Scott is just as much property as a mule.
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.
Well, honey, the Dred Scott case was a hot mess. It ended with the Supreme Court ruling that Dred Scott, a slave, couldn't sue for his freedom because he was considered property. And as for the Missouri Compromise, that bad boy got thrown out the window like yesterday's trash because the court said Congress couldn't ban slavery in the territories. So, in short, Dred Scott stayed a slave and the Compromise got a one-way ticket to the history books.
No, the 14th Amendment supersedes the Dred Scott decision.
Scott was a slave and could not win suit.
Scott was a slave and could not bring suit
Scott was a slave and could not win suit.
The chief justice in the Dred Scott case was Roger B. Taney.
it made slavery and the western territory
That the Supreme Court decision was both unnecessary and invalid.
Dred Scott was fighting for his freedom. The Dred Scott case was a landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled African Americans were not considered citizens and therefore did not have the right to sue in federal court. The decision further fueled the tensions over the issue of slavery leading up to the Civil War.
The Supreme Court eventually decided to give Dred Scott his freedom. They made that decision because they thought that it would end the huge slavery crisis. A few weeks after Dred Scott was freed, he sadly died. :(
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The admission of California to the Union - it was too big to be accommodated according to the terms of that compromise.
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