The Dred Scott Decision
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- Why did Dred say he was "free"?
- I'm free!
- Was Dred Scott freed?
- ?!?!?
- no
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- Dred Scott and his owner traveled with his owner to Wisconsin, where slavery was banned by the Missouri Compromise.
- Supreme Court
- You are not a citizen.
- Taney declared that the Court had rejected Scott's argument that his stay in Wisconsin had made him a free man.
- Why or why not?
- vote 7:2
- Why not??
- (Northerners)The decision of the moral assassination of a race and cannot be obeyed!
- Taney reasoned that banning slavery in a territory was the same as taking property from slaveholders who would like to bring their slaves into that territory, which was unconstitutional.
- Congress had a constitutional responsibility to protect the property rights of slaveholders in a territory.
- why
- unconstitutional
- The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. By a vote of seven to two, the Court had decided that Scott could not sue for his freedom in a federal court because he was not a citizen.
- You are not a citizen
- no African American, whether slave or free, was an American citizen—or could ever become one.
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