Examine the impact of the 1857 Supreme court Dred Scott v. Sanford decision. What were the....

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circumstances of the case? How did the Court rule, and what was the significance of that decision? What is the relationship between the Dred Scott decision and the 1855 Freeport Doctrine?

Answer 1

  Sanford owned a slave, Dred Scott, Sanford, who was a military officer, took his slave from Missouri, a slave state, to Minnesota, a free state. When Sanford was transferred from Minesota back to a slave state, Louisiana. Dred Scott sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court ruled that an African American slave was not a citizen of the USA and therefore held no legal standing in the USA, meaning they had no legal nor Constitutional Rights. Slaves were property and could be taken

anywhere in the USA, the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 were therefore illegal.

   The decision was haled in the South and ignored in the North. The South claimed that the North was not agreeing to the Constitution, they were right but no on e in the North really cared or worried aboutit to much.

The Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglas idea about Popular Sovereignty, meant that the people of an area could determine whether or not they wanted slavery by having a vote. The Dred Scott decision rendered this mute because the Constitution as intrpreted by the Court said slavery could go anywhere, but if you remember what I said earlier

everyone ignored the court so Popular Sovereignty, Freeport Decision was still being debated.

  It should be noted that Sanford was an Abolitionist and he had the case put forward in an attempt to limit slavery. Once the case was over he freed Dred Scott.

    Hope that helps

    packers.

Answer 2

The Court ruled that, as Dred Scott was not considered a citizen of the United States, and was in fact, a slave, that he did not have the rights to sue for his freedom against his master.

In the Douglas-Lincoln debate in Illinois, Stephen Douglas claimed that certain territories in the United States could be without slavery if the state legislation ordered it to be so, despite the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case.

Answer 3

The decision was that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves, or their descendants could never be citizens of the United States