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Dred Scott Decision
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  • A few days later, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case.†  (source)
  • The Dred Scott case was framed by the Anti-Saloon League.†  (source)
  • 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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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.†  (source)
Dred Scott = historically important U.S. Supreme Court case that decided Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories
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