jan 1, 1857 - Dred Scott vs Sandford
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Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, he resided in Illinois (a free state) and in the Louisiana Territory, where slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Since then, Dred Scott v. Sandford has become infamous as one of the most reviled legal decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court, but the ruling cannot be untangled from the prevailing political, economic, and social atmosphere of the United States in the late-1850s. While Dred Scott did not directly cause the Civil War, the case cannot be discounted as a major tailwind on the path toward war.
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