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dec 15, 1857 - Dred Scott vs. Sanford

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The Supreme Court issued the verdict that no black, free or slave could claim US citizenship. Dred Scott was a free slave wanting to move to the slave state of Missouri and wanted his freedom to follow him, but the court did not allow. This caused sectionalism when he got denied this it sparked abolitionists anger to fight.

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dec 15, 1857
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~ 168 years ago

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