Dred Scott Decisionin a sentence
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The Dred Scott Decision is a blight on our nation's historical record.
Dred Scott Decision = historically important U.S. Supreme Court case that decided Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories
- In school, they were studying Homer, tangents, tonal systems, Dred Scott, and finger whorls.† (source)
- A few days later, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case.† (source)
- What could this man know of borders and states' rights and the Constitution and Dred Scott?† (source)
- The Dred Scott case was framed by the Anti-Saloon League.† (source)
- "9 Douglas and the Supreme Court (which a year before had handed down the Dred Scott decision) would soon have the American people "working in the traces that tend to make this one universal Lincoln was considered more conservative than Seward on the slavery question he was chosen for the party nomination in 1860.† (source)