Question

Part of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Scott v. Sandford stated that
A. enslaved people did not have the right to bring a case to court.
B. free African Americans had the same rights as other US citizens.
C. enslaved people could not go into free states or territories.
D. the Missouri Compromise should be upheld.

Answer 1

Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States;