APUSH: Unit 5: The Dred Scott Decision of 1857
Dred Scott
Was an enslaved African American. Her southern master dies, and he becomes the property of his master's wife. Lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri.
unconstitutional, slavery
Although the Missouri Compromise had already been repealed prior to the case (with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act), the Dred Scott Decision struck down the law as ____________ because Congress had no authority to limit the spread of ___________ into the territories.
Northern View
Antislavery forces were outraged by the decision, which empowered the newly formed Republican Party and helped to fuel violence between slaveowners and abolitionists on the frontier.
Supreme Court
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ---- a staunch supporter of slavery ---- believes that once the _______ ________ gets involved, the issue of slavery will be solved.
Fifteenth Amendment 1870
Suffrage rights for Black men.
Fifth Amendment, property, law
The reasoning was that the __________ _____________ forbade Congress of depriving individuals of their _________ without due process of ________.
SECTIONAL TENSIONS, SLAVE
This fueled _________ _______. The whole country could be ______________!
Naturalized
To admit (a foreigner) to the citizenship of a country.
American citizens, federal court
Today, all people who are born or naturalized in the United States are _______ ________ who may bring suit in _______ ________.
black man, rights
The Supreme Court's ruling was that a _______ ________ has no __________.
property
A majority of the Court ruled that because a slave was "________," he or she could be taken into any territory and legally be held there in slavery.
Thirteenth Amendment 1865
Abolished slavery everywhere in the United States.
overturned
Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction Congress passed, and the ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, __________ the Dred Scott decision.
Fourteenth Amendment 1868
Granted citizenship to all persons (including African Americans including the formerly enslaved).
sued, freeman
Scott, aided by abolitionists __________ in hopes of being granted his freedom on the grounds that living in a free state and a free territory made him a _____________.
Southern View
The decision appeared to validate the Southern version of national power and would serve to embolden pro-slavery Southerners to expand slavery to all reaches of the nation.
sectional tensions, North, South
The decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford further exacerbated (worsened) rising ________ _______ between the _______ and the _______.
act of Congress (federal law)
The decision marked the first time the Supreme Court struck down an _______ ______ _____ as unconstitutional since the court's decision in Marbury v. Madison in 1803.
member, political
The decision of the court was read in March of 1857. The decision stated that because Scott was "a negro whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves," he was therefore, not a ________ of the ________ community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution.
HUMANIZES, slavery
When Dred Scott learns that his daughters are to be sold and taken away from him, this ___________ the case and provides powerful incite about what __________ is.
