can I please have some info on dred scott that would be good for a notecard?

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i would really appreciate it!!!!!

Answer 1

Dred Scott:
1. Sued for freedom through abolitionist help as early as 1846
2. master took him from a slave state to 2 free states of Illinois and Wisconsin.
3.March 6. 1857 Dred Scott Decision was handed by Roger Taney . He stated that no slave or a descendant of a slave could be a US citizen. Since therefore they could be not be citizens they could not sue the Federal Court because they were not citizens. Congress could not legislate slavery out of the new territories thus negating the Missouri Compromise of 1850 because the fifth amendment to the Constitution would be violated because owners would be denied their due process of law of confiscating their property without cause.
4.This secured thatLincon would come onto the scene as he would stump the nation to the denouncement of the decision which would put him on the public arenaof the Presidency.
5. Southerners rejoiced over the decision but this decision would edge the country to the Civil War.

Answer 2

The Dred Scott decision was one of the darkest and most political court cases that shaped the US. Dred Scott was a slave who had been taken into Illinois and Wisonsin Territory both of which prohibited slavery so Scott should have been set free. Dred Scott sued the US government for his freedom. he "Dred Scott Decision", was a lawsuit decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1857 that ruled that people of African descent, whether or not they were slaves, could never be citizens of the United States, and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories. The decision for the court was written by Chief Justice Roger Taney, who was a slave owner himself.

The parts of this decision dealing with the citizenship and rights of African-Americans were explicitly overturned by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

Answer 3

Dred Scott (ca. 1795 – September 17, 1858) was a slave who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in the famous Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1856. His case was based on the fact that he and his wife Harriet had lived, while slaves, in states and territories where slavery was illegal, including Illinois and parts of the Louisiana Purchase. The court ruled 7 to 2 against Scott, finding that he held no property and therefore was not entitled to file suit in a federal court.

Answer 4

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