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∙ 6y agoThe Dred Scott decision ruled that slaves were not citizens of the United states. Instead, they were the property of their masters. Therefore, a slave owner was within his rights to take a slave with him, even to free states.
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"Dred Scott Vs Sanford" was the landmark case that established precedent for slavery. Essentially the ruling was that congress could not ban slavery in certain states.
denied congress the power to regulate slavery in the territories
The Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford helped to increase sectional conflict because the decision denied Congress the ability to regulate slavery in the territories. The Chief Justice was Roger B. Taney.
The ruling in the Dred Scott case allowed slave owners to take their slaves with them into the Western territories of the United States.
C. L. Remond was an African - American AGAINST slavery. He was also rebelling against the Dred Scott Decision.
The admission of new states to the union and Dred Scott decision fueled the ongoing debate over slavery. (I got this off of ChaCha.com)
Raised the temperature of the slavery debate, when the Supreme Court declared that the Constitution protected property, and slaves were property. Strictly this would mean that no state could declare itself to be free soil.
"Dred Scott Vs Sanford" was the landmark case that established precedent for slavery. Essentially the ruling was that congress could not ban slavery in certain states.
The ruling was is that he was a slave and not a citizen couldn't sue for his release from slavery.
The Dred Scott ruling did not move the country closer to ending slavery. It astonished the Abolitionists by invoking the original terms of the Constitution - that a man's property was sacred, and that slaves were property. It widened the division.
Scott was denied his freedom. The Court ruled that slavery was legal in every state of the Union. The ruling divided the two sections more than ever.
The Dred Scott case decision in 1857 by the US Supreme Court did not actively effect the 1850 Missouri Compromise. The Compromise had been negated by the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854.What was effected was the Court's ruling that the US Congress could not pass legislation on slavery. Slavery was property and was constitutional according to the ruling of the Court. Scott never became a freeman.
It raised the temperature of the slavery debate, and it led to something much bigger in the shape of the Civil War.
the dred scott case was a major turning point in the debate of slavery. this case made it known that slavery was protected under the constiton. slaves were considered property and in the bill of rights, property could not be taken away without a warrant. the dred scott cause let all americans know that the law staed that slaves were not humans, not citizens, did not have rights, and were property. in my opinion, this is when he debate on slavery became so serious in not be fixed with another comprimise.
the dred scott case was a major turning point in the debate of slavery. this case made it known that slavery was protected under the constiton. slaves were considered property and in the bill of rights, property could not be taken away without a warrant. the dred scott cause let all americans know that the law staed that slaves were not humans, not citizens, did not have rights, and were property. in my opinion, this is when he debate on slavery became so serious in not be fixed with another comprimise.
It was not the (expected) ruling against Scott's freedom that caused the controversy. It was the reason given - that they claimed slavery was protected by the Constitution. If taken literally, this would invalidate all of the compromises between North and South, and make slavery legal in any state of the Union.
That slavery was legal in every state of the Union, because when the Founding Fathers declared that a man's property was sacred, they would have regarded slaves as property.