Dred Scott case

1) Who stated that: "[African Americans] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect"?

Mansa Musa

Thomas Jefferson

Roger Taney

Andrew Jackson

2) Based on the image above; Evaluate, interpret, and select the correct context.

Dred Scott is having a musical on the stage about his freedom and wins.

Dred Scott is awaiting for his court case to start in the St. Louis Circus Court in 1850. He goes later on and frees all the slaves in Wisconsin

Dred Scott sued his owner for their freedom because they were enslaved in Wisconsin (A Slave-Free state), and should be freed on that territory. It further reached the Supreme Court of the United States.

3) In the Dred Scott V. Sandford case of 1857, who argued and ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a Federal territory.

Justice Roger Taney

General Ulysses Grant

Abraham Lincoln

John K. Polk

4) True or False: The Dred Scott V Sandford case directly triggered the Civil War which led to the loss of 500,000 Americans

True

False

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