Question
True or false
The Court proclaimed that since Scott had once lived on free soil, he was free and no longer an enslaved person
After the Supreme Court's ruling in Scott v. Sandford, many southerners felt that the Court had reestablished their belief that the practice of slavery was protected by the U.S. Constitution
The Court proclaimed that since Scott had once lived on free soil, he was free and no longer an enslaved person
After the Supreme Court's ruling in Scott v. Sandford, many southerners felt that the Court had reestablished their belief that the practice of slavery was protected by the U.S. Constitution
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True. In the ruling of Scott v. Sandford (1857), the Supreme Court did not proclaim that Dred Scott was free; rather, it ruled that since he was a Black man, he was not a citizen and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court. Additionally, the Court's decision reinforced the idea that enslaved individuals and their descendants could not be considered citizens and upheld the notion that slaveholding was protected by the Constitution. This decision was celebrated by many Southern slaveholders, as it affirmed their beliefs regarding the institution of slavery.