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The Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford stated that Congress did not have the power to?

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The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a Federal territory. In 1846, an enslaved Black man named Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet sued for their freedom in St. Louis Circuit Court.

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