2. • Dred Scott was a Missouri slave
• Dred Scott was free when he entered Illinois
and Wisconsin.
• According to amendment 5 Dred Scott was
still a slave and “no master property rights
could be limited or taken away by a state or
federal law”.
• The Dred Scott decision sparked outrage in
the northern states and glee in the south—
the growing schism made civil war
inevitable.
3. Who are the players in Dred Scott v. Sandford
case?
Eliza Irene Sandford
“Widow of Dr. Emerson and probable real owner of Dred
Scott”
Dr. Calvin Chaffee
Irene second husband; abolitionist and member of
congress
Taylor Blow
Son of Dred Scott’s original owner
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
Attorneys
Montgomery Blair, Alexander Field, David Hall (for Dred
Scott)
Reverdy Johnson, Henry S. Geyer, and Hugh Garland (for
John Sandford)
4. Who took the matter to court?
“Dred Scott sued Sandford in a state court ,
arguing that he was legally free because he and
his family had lived in a territory where slavery
was banned”.
Who is the plaintiff?
Dred Scott
Who is the defendant?
Sandford
5. What did the key players in the case actually
do?
“The Court could have disposed of the case on
narrower grounds by holding that Scott had not
become free through his temporary stay with
Emerson in free territory. Instead, Taney decided
that the Court needed to address the broader
issue of the status of slavery in the territories”.
6. Whendid the key players do what they did
and when was the court case heard?
“On March 6, 1857, chief Justice Roger B. Taney
read the majority opinion of the court, which
stated that slaves were bot citizen congress had
no authority to ban slavery and that moved the
nation a step closer to Civil War”.
7. • Where did the Dred Scott v. Sandford case
happen?
At local St. Louis district court
• Where did the Dred Scott vs. Sandford case
take place at?
The court case took place in 1857 in Missouri
8. • Can you identify why the key players did
what they did?
They did it because the constitution said that blacks
wasn’t considered citizens so Dred Scott couldn’t be
free.
9. How did the court come to its verdict?
The Dred Scott decision denied the citizenship of
African American and reduced them to the status
of property.
Were there other court cases involved?
No there wasn’t any other court cases involved
10. • I feel like they just didn’t want African
Americans free from slavery at all at that
time and that’s wrong because we are all
human it doesn’t matter what color our skin
is
11. "Dred Scott
v. Sandford." West's Encyclopedia of
American Law. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 7 Feb.
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