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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
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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 slave nation."† (source)
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In school, they were studying Homer, tangents, tonal systems, Dred Scott, and finger whorls.† (source)
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What could this man know of borders and states' rights and the Constitution and Dred Scott?† (source)
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A few days later, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case.† (source)
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The Dred Scott case was framed by the Anti-Saloon League.† (source)
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No more discussions, stormy or quiet, about the true meaning of the Fugitive Bill, the Settlement Fee, God's Ways and Negro pews; antislavery, manumission, skin voting, Republicans, Dred Scott, book learning, Sojourner's high-wheeled buggy, the Colored Ladies of Delaware, Ohio, and the other weighty issues that held them in chairs, scraping the floorboards or pacing them in agony or exhilaration.†
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