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1857 A landmark Supreme Court decision held that Congress did not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves were not citizens. The decision was _______________.

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Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that the Constitution of the United States was not meant to include American citizenship for black people, regardless of whether they were enslaved or free, and therefore the rights and privileges it confers upon American citizens could not apply to them.

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