because he onced lived in areas of the north where slavery was prohibited
Dred Scott is famous for the start of the civil war between the union army of the north and the south.
Dred Scott claimed freedom on the basis of saying that he was illegally a slave when his owner moved him over to the northern-free states. However, in order to sue somebody, it is required that you be a U.S. citizen. Dred Scott was viewed as property, and the case was never acknowledged.
The Dred Scott contributed to sectionalism by allowing slave owners to bring slaves into free states and still be considered property of the owner. This ruling allowed slavery to be expanded into the new territories and free states.
Dred Scott sued his slaveholder because he was treating him as a slave even though they had lived in a non slaveholding state ... [Scott and his slaveholder had moved from Missouri, a slave state, to Illinois, a free state, and back to Missouri.] The Supreme Court ruled (1856) that Scott's residence in a free state did not make him a free person. This decision gave further impetus to the abolitionist movement, in that it suggested that laws against slavery would be held to be invalid, and was one of the causes of the civil war.
That he had been taken on to free soil, where his freedom would have been granted automatically if he had applied for it at that time.
Dred Scott.
Dred Scot's master had taken him to a free territory.
Dred Scott argued that his time living in free territories should have made him a free man, as these territories prohibited slavery. He claimed that this should have nullified his status as a slave under the Missouri Compromise.
Dred Scott based his claim for freedom on the fact that his master had taken him to free states and territories.
Dred Scott believed he should be free because he had lived in free states and territories where slavery was illegal, which he argued should have conferred freedom upon him. He sued for his freedom based on the legal principle of once free, always free, but ultimately lost the case in a landmark Supreme Court decision.
First of all learn how to talk. Then go ask Your History teacher this question. you should have said "What did the Dred Scott decision do?" It was a slave who thought he was free and they went to court over it and the court said he was a slave and that he was not free.
Chief Justice Taney believed that Dred Scott should not be free because he argued that African Americans, whether slave or free, were not considered citizens under the U.S. Constitution. Taney also argued that the federal government did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories, which meant that Scott's residence in a free state did not make him free.
His master unwisely took him into free soil, and then back into slave country. If Dred wanted his freedom, he should have applied for it on free soil, where it would have been granted automatically.
Dred Scot's master had taken him to a free territory.
He was a slave in a free state
because they said "slaves are property" and said that the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional and they wanted to keep slaves out of western territory and any slaves found free would be back in captivity and even though Dred Scott was free for 19 years they still made him to be a slave because of the Dred Scott vs. Sanford .That is how Dred Scott was discriminated.
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