Question

Which was a provision of the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Scott v. Sandford case?
Enslaved people were property and did not have the right to file a suit.
Free African Americans could enjoy the same rights as other US citizens.
Slaveholders could only take enslaved workers into slave states or territories.
The Missouri Compromise was constitutional and should be upheld.

Answer 1

"Enslaved people were property and did not have the right to file a suit."

The Court held that people of African descent were not U.S. citizens and thus could not sue in federal court, and it declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.