Dred Scott Case

Who was Dred Scott?

• A senator from Kansas

• A slave who sued for his freedom

• A farmer

• A plantation owner

• A slave who tried to sue his master but got killed in the process

Why was the Dred Scott decision so important to slavery?

• It proved that slaves were property with no rights

• It proved that slaves that ran away for freedom but came back are still considered free

• It proved that slavery should be in every territory

• It proved that slaves should be treated like humans and should be better than whites

Why did Dred claim he was free?

• He could swim

• He was married to a free woman

• He had once lived in a free territory

• He had escaped in to another country with slavery

Dred Scott Was a ______

• Slave

• Slave Owner

• Politican

• Free Black Man

Dred Scott Had Traveled To ______ States

• Free

• Confederate

• Union

• Russian

What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• That slavery diminished the national character.

• That African American rights were protected by the Constitution.

• That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens

• That slavery should be abolished by executive order

The Dred Scott case made what Compromise unconstitutional.  

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Great Compromise

• The 3/5th Compromise

• The Missouri Compromise

The result of my fight for freedom caused a division in the country which led to

• World War 1

• the Vietnam War

• the Civil War

• the Revolutionary War

Controversial Supreme Court Case that led to all African Americans being declared noncitizens of the United States

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Marbury v. Madison

• Gibbons v. Ogden