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To each action there is a reaction. In the past there have been many incidents that have been caused because of greed, oppression, unfairness etc. the biggest one regarding American history would have to be the American Civil War. Everyone knows what the civil war is and what it is about. However, most people don’t know the major events that led up to the Civil War. The biggest misconception about the Civil war is that most people think it was only fought over slavery. That ideology is not true at all. There were a few other major events that caused and led up to the war such as: The Missouri Compromise, the Dred Scott decision, and the President Abraham Lincoln Election, The Missouri compromise was that Missouri wanted to join the Union as …show more content…

He sought it through the legal system of the US. The decision in 1857 by the Supreme Court in the case of Dred scott, the American Supreme Court denied Scotts plea, deciding that no African American could or would ever be a United States citizen. The Dred Scott case was perhaps the most important legal case ever issued by the U.S. Supreme Dree Court . This was the infamous 1857 ruling in which Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote that Negroes "had no legal rights which the white man was bound to respect." Most historians agree that the Dred Scott ruling put the nation on an inevitable path to civil war. The Dred Scott decision sparked the civil war because the North argued that once a free state always a free state, meaning that when Dred Scott went to freeman territory, he should be declared a free man no matter what, but the Supreme Court argued that slaves are nothing but property and only that, they aren’t humans, they have no rights, and their only goal is to obey their masters. Taney, part of the Supreme Court, even said “slaves have no rights which any white man was bound to respect.” Tenny also confirmed that Slaves were property and not human. The Dred Scott decision was a pivotal turning the nation to what would become the American Civil

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The case of Scott vs. Sandford was a major factor in the movement for abolitionist. It empowered the newly republican party, and altered the constitution for the good. Till this day, U.S. colored citizens are now treated like citizens due to the Scott vs. Sandford case. Dred Scott, a slave who was purchased by a U.S surgeon -Dr. John Emerson- who worked for the army, moved together in the Wisconsin territory which was in the northern area.

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In Document 3b, according to Paul Finkelman, it pushed the nation closer to war, that it destroyed any chance of an agreement between the North and South over slavery in the territories. Therefore, the impact of the Dred Scott decision brought the nation closer to the Civil War by opening the Northerners who believed that slavery could be tolerable as long as it stayed in the South and brought them to realize that if they did not stop slavery now, they might never have that chance again. The Dred Scott v. Sandford

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There have been many famous court trials throughout history. The Dred Scott v. Stanford Court Case of 1857, also known as the “Dred scott case”, was one of these historic court trials. This court case led to the United states supreme Court decision on the US labor law and constitutional law. It revolved around the matter of Negroes whose ancestors that were imported into the United States, and were put into slavery. The Supreme ruled that whether enslaved or free, Blacks could not be an American citizen, could not sue in federal court, and the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired.

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Dred Scott reported that Mrs. Emerson beat him and treated him terribly. Hence, why he decided to fight for the freedom that he believe he deserved. Two out of the three justices were pro slavery making it a hard battle to fight for Dred

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Another example of growing sectional divisions over the issue of slavery spreading is the Dred Scott Decision of 1857 (Doc 9). In this court case, the U.S. supreme court ruled that slaves have no rights, and that slavery was free to expand into the territories. This decision pleased southern defenders of slavery, and angered northern abolitionists, further dividing the

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Scott without a doubt was not giving up his fight for freedom this easily because his case could also help other African American slaves stand up for themselves. Sandford was so angry with the fact that Scott won the second trial, Mrs. Emerson, Sanford’s sister took it upon herself to appeal the ruling which then went to the Missouri Supreme Court where Scott had lost in court again (William, 2014). Scott shows that the case was not about money but simply because he had been held illegally by Sanford which is why he sued to make Sanford pay for lost time over the years that he could never get back. In fact, this case was so powerful many believed that it was the cause which leads the Civil War to occur (150 Years Ago, 2007). With the help of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendment the Dred Scott decision was overturned, which now allows American citizens in the United States to sue in federal court (PBS,

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In 1847 Dred Scott sued his slave owners widow for his freedom. Scott’s argument was that since he had previously been a residence of the free state of Illinois he was a free man. Scott eventually lost the case when, in 1857, it was brought to the Supreme Court who ruled in a 7-2 majority against Scott. The court stated that due to the fact that Scott was of African descent he could not be an American citizen, and therefore not sue in federal courts. The court also ruled that the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional, effectively allowing slavery in all states and territories.

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The decision was one of the fourteen cases which was called the worst Supreme Court decision ever rendered and was later overturned. The Dred Scott Decision was a key case regarding the issue of slavery in March 1857. Where people don’t share the same privileges as today the court decided that black people weren’t considered as non- citizens they were slaves therefore without citizenship they have no right and they are unable to request for their freedom. In Scotts v. Sandford case an African American man who was born into slavery, wanted what all slaves would have wanted, their freedom. They were mistreated, neglected, and treated not as humans, but as

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Dred Scott vs Sanford took a step back towards reducing the unbalance between races. This federal case confirmed that African Americans, enslaved or free, are not citizens of the United States. Thereafter, this was the prime leader to the Civil War. Making the judgment that African Americans are known as non-citizens means so much more, despite the fact they known as 'slaves' or 'immigrants' but they had a disadvantage to everything. In this case it enabled slaves to sue at a Federal Courts, when whites are able too.

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In 1845, Scott sued his master’s widow for freedom on the grounds that the laws in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory barred slavery. The case was dismissed by Chief Justice Roger Taney of Maryland (who apparently came from a slave state) on the basis that black people where not citizens, therefore Dredd Scott was not an American citizen and he had no right to sue and that because he was a slave, he was so inferior that he had no rights that the white man was bound to respect. This decision was very unsettling to the thousands of free slaves especially in the south because by stripping them of their citizenship the court had made them vulnerable to reenslavement or expulsion. To the blacks, the enemy was no longer the enemy, but the very government from which they had hoped for

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The American Civil War was a war that started in South Carolina when the Confederates attacked the Union soldiers on April 12, 1861. The Civil War was not avoidable because of the many events leading up to the war. The Northern states and the Southern states were angry with each other and their hatred for each other only continued to grow. One main reason the Civil War began was because of their disagreement on slavery. A few events leading up to the Civil War included the Fugitive Slave Act, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the Kansas Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott Decision.

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In 1857, the Dred Scott Decision occurred because Roger Taney declared that the majority of blacks weren’t U.S citizens, but Congress hadn’t the authority to exclude slavery from any territory, which any future attempt to restrict slavery. The John Brown Raid was also major cause. John Brown firmly believed that a collapse of slavery was the only answer. He waited to provoke a rebellion by arming slaves in Virginia. Brown was found guilty of murder.

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Many people can argue that the main cause of the Civil War was the Kansas-Nebraska Act or the Compromise of 1850. What most people don’t understand, that most of the events leading up to the Civil War was slavery. Slavery is first reason that Civil War were started, but there are other reasons such as the Missouri Compromise, the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The year 1860 was election year for the United States, Abraham Lincoln became the United States new president.

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This led to numerous conflicts, which eventually triggered the Civil War. One conflict in particular, the Supreme Court case of Dred Scott in 1857, demonstrated just how firm Americans’ racist beliefs were. In simple terms, this case was about Scott, a slave, who was trying to legally win his freedom. His former master who had died, brought him North beyond the 36-30 Line, where slavery supposed to be illegal. The real purpose of this case was to have the Supreme Court declare that slavery was illegal North of this line, which would void the vote that had recently made slavery legal in the Kansas Territory.

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Uproar and protest bubbled over in the states after Scott’s failure to obtain his freedom. His case also fueled the North in their battle with the South, since the big topic of the century was “slavery”. They wanted justice for Dred Scott, to rightfully place his ownership in his own hands, to grant him the freedom to live however he pleased and to not have to walk in shackles. Any human should have that basic right, as it says in the constitution. This landmark of a case stood as a breaking point for social reform; motivation to stop the discrimination that ran throughout the country.

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