Dred Scott court case

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What best describes Dred Scott? Options: slave who sued for his freedom, slaveowner who sued for the return of a fugitive slave, Georgia politician trying to ban slavery, Supreme Court judge making a ruling on the spread of slavery

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slave who sued for his freedom

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Dred Scott's case went to...

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the United States Supreme Court.

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The Dred Scott decision is referred to as "the Supreme Court case that..."

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caused the Civil War.

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The Dred Scott decision...

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satisfied southerners, angered northerners.

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The Dred Scott case pushed the nation closer to disunion & civil war?

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true

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According to the Dred Scott decision, any area of the country was open to the spread of slavery, possibly even the free states of the North?

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true

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How did the Dred Scott case (1857) impact the Compromise of 1850?

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It overturned the Compromise of 1850 and made it obsolete.

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The ruling in the Dred Scott case protected the rights of...

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slave owners.

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What did the Supreme Court's ruling in the Dred Scott case make possible?

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the spread of slavery into any free territory or state

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The Dred Scott Supreme Court case centered around what issue?

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slavery