Question

In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court decided

A. the Missouri Compromise was illegal because it was illegal for Congress to deprive a slave owner of property (slaves) without the due process of law.

B. the Compromise of 1850 was illegal because it was illegal for Congress to deprive a slave owner of property (slaves) without the due process of law.

C. the Missouri Compromise was illegal because it was illegal for Congress to deprive a slave of his or her freedom if they lived in the South.

D. the Missouri Compromise was illegal because it freed slaves in the slave states

Answer 1

A, the Missouri compromise marked slaves above a line as free and those below slaves, dread Scott was the slave of a doctor who moved a lot and had died in a free state :)