Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held that the United States Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black Afr
The Missouri Compromise created the slave-holding state Missouri (Mo., yellow) but prohibited slavery in the rest of the former Louisiana Territory (here, marked Missouri Territory 1812, green) north of latitude 36°30' North. Modern state boundaries are also shown.
Dred Scott
Chief Justice Roger Taney, the author of the majority opinion in the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision
Dred and Harriet Scott Statue in St. Louis
The origins of the American Civil War were rooted in the desire of the Southern states to preserve and expand the institution of slavery. Historians in the 21st century overwhelmingly agree on the cen
Battle of Fort Sumter, the first hostilities of the war, as depicted by Currier and Ives
President Andrew Jackson viewed South Carolina's attempts to nullify the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 as tantamount to treason.
Picking cotton in Georgia
Slaves working in the fields, on the Confederate $100 bill, 1862–63. On the left is John C. Calhoun, on the right Columbia.