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
Missouri Compromise
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The Missouri Compromise was federal legislation of the United States that balanced the desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to ex
Dred Scott v. Sandford
…requires for a U.S. federal court to be able to exercise jurisdiction over a case. After ruling on those issues surrounding Scott, Taney struck down the Missouri Compromise because, by prohibiting slavery in U.S. territories north of the 36°30′ parallel, it interfered with slave owners' property rights under the Fifth…
President James Monroe, who signed the Missouri Compromise
Thomas Jefferson: The Missouri crisis roused Thomas Jefferson "like a fire bell in the night".
Rufus King, the last of the Federalist icons
Diagram of the Old Senate Chamber