dred scott decision

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U.S. Supreme Court decision of 1857 that denied the civil rights of blacks while defending the rights of southern slave owners
formally Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857 ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States that made slavery legal in all U.S. territories. Scott was a slave whose master had taken him in 1834 from a slave state (Missouri) to a free state and a free territory, then back to Missouri. Scott sued for his freedom in Missouri in 1846, claiming his residence in a free state and a free territory made him free. The opinion of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney declared that Scott was not entitled to rights as a U.S. citizen and, in fact, had "no rights which any white man was bound to respect". Taney and six other justices struck down the Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional, maintaining that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories (see states' rights). The decision, a clear victory for the South, increased Northern antislavery sentiment, strengthened the new Republican Party, and fed the sectional strife that led to war in 1861
dred scott decision

    Hyphenation

    dred Scott de·ci·sion

    Turkish pronunciation

    dred skät dîsîjın

    Pronunciation

    /ˈdred ˈskät dəˈsəᴢʜən/ /ˈdrɛd ˈskɑːt dɪˈsɪʒən/
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