mar 6, 1857 - Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Dred Scott who was a slave had been living in a free state and wanted his freedom. The supreme court ruled against him saying that slave owners could take the slave into free states thereby negating popular sovereignty and the missouri compromise.
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