1 sett 1868 anni - The Dred Scott decision Mar. 6, 1857

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-Dred Scott was a former enslaved person whose master had taken him to territories where slavery was illegal, declared himself a free man and sued for his freedom
-Scott won the case, but lost the appeal, so the cause went to the Supreme Court where Scott lost
-Chief Justice Roger Taney declared that enslaved people were property, not citizens and that no Black person could ever be a citizen of the US, therefore, because Scott was not a citizen, he could not sue in federal courts
-He also ruled that congress couldn't regulate slavery in the territories as it had done in passing the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 and again with the Missouri Compromise
-This part of the decision nullified the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and ruled out any hope of reviving the Wilmot Proviso
-Major victory for the Southerners and a turning point in the "decade of crisis"
-In the North, the decision was denounced and even those who were not strong abolitionists believed that the decision tilted the balance of power too far in the South's favor
-Many saw it as further proof of a Slave Power
-The Democrat Party was now dividing along regional lines

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