Dred Scott

In the 1850's

• The whole country allowed slavery.

• Half the states allowed slavery and half did not.

• Some of the new territories allowed slavery and some did not.

to be considered property to be bought, sold, transferred, or inherited

• inevitable

• tensions

• secession

• enslaved

Dred Scott was...

• A free man

• A slave owver

• A Slave who gained his freedom

• A slave who did not gain his freedom

What evidence did Scott use to support his court case that he should be free?

• John Emerson, his owner, had died.

• The fact that he was moved around to many places because he was a slave and had not say in where he wanted to live.

• He was not paid for his work.

• He had lived the free state of Illinois and Wisconsin territory.

True or False: Dred Scott felt that he was a free man, instead of a slave, because he had lived in a free state previously and was given his freedom there.

• True

• False

Scott went to court to...

• ask for money to repay his days in slavery.

• ask for freedom.

• get married.

During Scott's life he was moved around

• to only free states

• to only slave states

• to free states and slave states

highest federal court in the nation

• banned

• Supreme Court

• enslaved

• tensions

Eliza appealed the decision because she wasn't happy with it.

• apply to a higher court to keep the decision of a lower court

• apply to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court.

• ask the court to explain why the case was dismissed

Dred Scott was owned by

• George Washington

• John Emerson

• Harriet Scott