Question

The Dred Scott Decision was called "The worst decision the Supreme Court has ever made?"

Why do you think this case was called that?

Answer 1

Dred Scott decision, formally Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional. The decision added fuel to the sectional controversy and pushed the country closer to civil war.

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Answer 2

It only increased the divisions between the north and the south as abolitionists and anti-slavery peoples of the north were sent into a rage after the decision made in court.