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Where did Dr. Emerson take Dred Scott after he bought him? Options: Missouri, Canada, Illinois, Minnesota

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Illinois

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Where had Dred Scott lived before returning to Missouri? Options: Missouri and Maine, California and Virginia, Kansas and Nebraska, Illinois and Wisconsin

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Illinois and Wisconsin

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What did Dred Scott argue in the Scott v. Sandford case?

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He was free because he had lived in free states

Front

Which best describes the status of slavery during the time of the Dred Scott case?

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Slavery was creating tension between the North and the South

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Which was found to be unconstitutional based on the Supreme Court's ruling in Scott v. Sandford? Options: the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Fifth Amendment, the Missouri Compromise

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the Missouri Compromise

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An effect of the Supreme Court ruling in Scott v. Sandford was that

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legal protection for slavery was strengthened

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After the Scott v. Sandford ruling, many people in the North believed that

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slavery might become legal everywhere

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What reason did the judge in the Dred Scott case give the ruling that "members of the African race" did not have a right to sue?

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They were not actually U.S. citizens.

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A slave that sued for his freedom because his owner had taken him to live in the free state of Wisconsin.

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Dred Scott

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Ruled slaves could never be U.S. citizens
-Slaves were continued to be viewed as property
-Declared Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

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Dred Scott v. Sandford