Question

in the Dred Scott case the Supreme Court decided A. the Missouri Compromise was illegal because it freed slaves in the slave states. 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 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. D. 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

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

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

Step-by-step explanation:

The Dred Scott decision was a legal case in which the U.S. Preeminent Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7– 2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had lived in a free state and region (where subjection was precluded) was not in this way qualified for his opportunity; that African Americans were not and would never be natives of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had pronounced free all domains west of Missouri and north of scope 36°30′, was illegal. The choice added fuel to the sectional controversy and pushed the country closer to civil war.