Congress and the Senate were the source behind all of the political decisions which lead to the civil war, These and many other political decisions were the reason that the North and the South could no longer stand each other and ended up going to war against each other. The Dred Scott Decision, talked about in source 10, was one major decision that the two sides were conflicted on. Slave Dred Scott sued for his freedom after having spent years living in a free state, and the final decision was that he was not allowed to sue for his freedom because he was a piece of property and not considered a person. The South happily agreed to this, but the North didn’t since they believe that slavery is wrong and that they shouldn’t deny Scott his
