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Because the court had sensationally ruled that slavery was legal in every state of the Union. They had decided to interpret the Constitution in the way that the Founding Fathers would have done. When they declared that a man's property was sacred, they would have included slaves within their definition of property. The Court had also declared that a black man could not be an American citizen, and had no business taking a white man to court. All of this was music to the ears of the Southern planters.
The Dred Scott decision
The Dred Scott decision stated that people of African decent imported to America were not citizens and not protected by the Constitution. The fourteenth and fifteenth amendments nullified that decision.
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They were delighted. It appeared to mean that every state in the Union was open for slavery.
Southern slave owners were happy with the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision because it allowed them to take their slaves into slave free territories and not give up ownership. The case undermined local sovereignty.
The decision made slavery legal and slaves were properly without rights or citizenship.
Because the court had sensationally ruled that slavery was legal in every state of the Union. They had decided to interpret the Constitution in the way that the Founding Fathers would have done. When they declared that a man's property was sacred, they would have included slaves within their definition of property. The Court had also declared that a black man could not be an American citizen, and had no business taking a white man to court. All of this was music to the ears of the Southern planters.
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They believed that since slaves were their property that they could have property wherever they pleased :]
Scott didn't win his freedom and the decision reinforced the idea that slaves were property. The Missouri Compromise was a blow to the southern states to gain more slave states. I don't think the Scott decision added anything to the compromise, but it did entrench slavery in the states where it existed.
The Dred Scott decision by the US Supreme Court in 1857 confirmed what large scale slave owners in the south always believed. That was that slavery was legal under the US Constitution. The Court's decision was controversial, however, only a constitutional amendment could change that decision.
Southerners were delighted with the Dred Scott decision, but northerners were outraged.
...slavery was protected by the constitution on the grounds that a man's property was sacred and slaves were property.
Southerners benefited the most from the Dred Scott Decision.
Stonewell Jackson thought Dred Scott Decision was a supid idea