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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.
Dred Scott was the known slave who sued for his freedom in the case Dred Scott v. Sandford. The Supreme Court decision ruled against Scott, stating that as a slave, he was not a US citizen and therefore could not sue in federal court. This decision further fueled tensions over slavery in the US leading up to the Civil War.
The two main implications of the Dred Scott decision were that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, were not considered American citizens and therefore did not have the right to sue in federal court, and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories, effectively invalidating the Missouri Compromise.
Two important decisions that came out of the Dred Scott v. Sandford case were that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not considered citizens and therefore could not sue in federal court, and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional as it restricted slave owners' property rights.