Sanford

Kansas-Nebraska act, granting the two territories the choice of slavery by vote of popularity. Advocates of both pro and anti slavery went to Kansas and ended in a bloodshed that lasted into 1861. During this violent bloodshed, the case of Dred Scott vs. Sanford was brought up in Virginia. This decision by the supreme court was one of the strongest triggers of what was the beginning of the civil war. Justice Roger B. Taney noted during the hearing, “[African American’s] had no rights which the…

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specifically the citizenship clause which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” The citizenship clause struck down key portions of the Dred Scott v Sanford decision which held that African Americans were not citizens of the United States and as such were not subject to the privileges associated with citizenship. This clause also provided the constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act of…

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He made small decisions to the courtroom and dress wear, for instance like wearing an efficient outfit underneath the robe at all times. One of Taney’s major cases was the Dred Scott v. Sanford. In this case, basically a African American slave named, Dred Scott, lived in a free state and a free territory of Wisconsin, but when he moved to Missouri he wanted to keep his freedom, until a Caucasian man wanted to be his owner. Scott took this…

Imagine that day, all eyes on you in the courtroom. You have been through so much and you finally think you are going to be freed. Then you are told that you don’t even have a right to a trial because you aren’t a citizen. The anger you must feel to do so much and just be shut down like it was nothing. This is how Dred Scott must have felt when the Supreme Court ruled against him. Even though slavery was seen as an evil, The Dred Scott decision stated that no slave can be a citizen, they cannot…

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