It heightened the division between the two sides - it delighted the South and greatly offended Northern abolitionists. It raised the temperature of the debate, and brought civil war closer.
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Dred Scott is a slave and sued his slave owner that if his in the north his freed from slavery. dred scott decision is when they said the Dred is just a slave and they are not citizen had no rights to sue their slave owners. this led to continue the civil wars against the north and the south
Southerners were delighted with the Dred Scott decision, but northerners were outraged.
Scott was a slave and could not bring suit
No, the 14th Amendment supersedes the Dred Scott decision.
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