Question

What made the Dred Scott case a significant one in America history.

A. The case challenged the legality of importing enslaved people from Africa or the Caribbean and eventually ended the slave trade in America

B. The case forced the Supreme Court to accept that the intent of the framers of the Constitution is irrelevant to the implementation of a law in the present day.

C. The case resulted in the Supreme Court denying that African Americans could be citizens and added to the sectional tensions that eventually led to the Civil War.

D. The case led to the election of Abraham Lincoln, who was one of the lawyers who represented Dred Scott before the Supreme Court.

Answer 1

C

Step-by-step explanation:

The court's decision in the case increased inter-sectional tensions that ultimately sparked the Civil War by denying African Americans citizenship.

The Dred Scott case was a pivotal point in American history since it not only resulted in the denial of citizenship to African Americans but also widened the gap between the North and the South about the subject of slavery. This ruling, which practically said that those who had been held as slaves and their descendants had no legal rights, increased the tensions that eventually led to the Civil War.