The Dred Scott Decision

Scott was a slave of who

An army doctor

Taney also described what?

That congress had no right to forbid slavery in the Wisconsin Territory

He believed what?

That the Missouri Compromise was keeping people from owning property

He felt what?

That the united states constitution protected the right of people to own slaves

Many people had hoped what?

The the Dred Scott Decision would finally settle the disagreements among the sections of the country over slavery once and for all. instead, it made the problems worse.

The case moved where?

To the federal system and up to the Supreme court

In 1857 the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of an enslaved African American, what was his name?

Dred Scott

Who died?

Dred Scott's owner

There, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney said what?

He said that ''because Scott's a slave, he had none of the rights and privileges of an American citizen

For a time they lived where?

Illinois, a free state

Scott had asked for his freedom, what did the court do?

Refused him