Question

In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court decided A. 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. B. 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. 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 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.

Under the Compromise of 1850, western states were allowed to vote whether or not territories would allow slavery. The compromise also created a dividing line for existing states between free and slave states.

The Dred Scott case was decided in 1857 after Scott's master had moved him into free states. He argued that by being moved into free states, declared after the Compromise of 1850, changed his status. The Court declared slaves were not people but were property. Due to their status as property, the property could not be taken away just because the master moved.

Answer 2

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

Step-by-step explanation:

The Dred Scott case was one of the most controversial events preceding the Civil War.

The case began when Dred Scott, a slave who had been taken by his owner to a free state and then returned to Missouri. Claimed judicially that because of that action, and according to the Missouri Compromise entitled him the emancipation.

In the Supreme Court decision prevailed the opinion of Chief Justice Taney. He claimed that the U.S. Constitution didn´t include the black people as citizens and therefore any of the rights held on it were possible to apply onto them. Apart from that he then ruled on the Missouri compromise and considered it unconstitutional because it exceeded the U.S. Congress´s powers according to the Constitution.

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