Summative 11-3

Northerners hated the decision because it supported the South's claim that slaves were property by law. Southerners supported the decision because it established their right to own slaves anywhere they chose to do so.

African Americans had no rights, because they weren't citizens. Slaves were property, not people. Congress had no authority to ban slavery in any territory of the United States. The United States Supreme Court's ruling on the Dred Scott case had what affect on the North and the South in 1857?

Scott was illegally held as a slave in free territory, therefore he should be a free man, not a slave.

Dred Scott was a slave from Missouri that had a legal case presented for his freedom to the Supreme Court in 1857. What was the primary argument made by Scott's lawyers to the court in the case of Scott v.Sandford?

Living on free soil did not make Scott free. HIs status as free or slave depended on Missouri state law.

On the second question, did living on free soil make Scott a free man, the Supreme Court ruled:

All of the above were part of the Supreme Court's ruling on the third question.

On the third question concerning whether the ban on slavery in the northern part of the Louisiana territory was legal, the Supreme Court ruled:

The issue of slavery is dividing the nation and we have reached the point in history where it must be decided.

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention. If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated, with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only, not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached, and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new -- North as well as South. A House Divided Abraham Lincoln, June 16th, 1858 What was the main idea expressed in Abraham Lincoln's House Divided speech?

African Americans were not citizens under the Constitution, thus Scott did not have the right to file a suit in Federal Court

On the question of Dred Scott's citizenship, the Supreme Court ruled:

Roger Taney

The Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court who wrote the final ruling on the Dred Scott decision?

The Supreme Court ruled that limiting slavery to slave-states was not legal.

Use the list below to answer the question. Key Points in the Dred Scott v. Sandford Decision• Dred Scott, a slave in Missouri, sued for his freedom because he had lived inboth a free state and a free territory.• The Supreme Court decision declared that African-Americans, free or slave,were not citizens of the United States and therefore had no rights, includingthe right to sue.• The decision also declared that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Why was the Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court decision a threat to northern regions of the country?

Was Scott a legal resident of Illinois or the Wisconsin Territory during his stay there?

Which of the following questions was not a question that the Supreme Court ruled on in the Dred Scott Case?

Abraham Lincoln

Which of these two candidates for the Senate from Illinios in 1856 had the following position on the issue of slavery? "There is no reason in the world why the African American is not entitled to all the natural rights listed in the Declaration of Independence. The right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. In the right to eat the bread that his own hand earns , he is the equal to me, and to (you), and to every living man"