Answer: c. deepening divisions between the North and South.
Step-by-step explanation:
You included no references but I believe the answer above is correct if it relates to the Dred-Scott case.
The Dred Scott case happened when an enslaved Dred Scott sued for his freedom as he lived in a free state. The Supreme Court ruled that he could not even sue as he was regarded as property. It went forward to state that African Americans could not be American citizens because they were property.
This is widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in Supreme Court history and it deepened the division between the North and the South in a period where the North was increasingly advocating for Abolitionism and the South were stubbornly holding onto slavery.