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What did many people in the North believe after the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Scott v. Sandford case?
Slavery might become legal everywhere.
Slavery might be banned everywhere.
Former enslaved people would move to the North.
Former enslaved people would stay in the South.
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Slavery might become legal everywhere.
Many Northerners feared the Dred Scott decision (which said Congress couldn’t ban slavery in the territories and held Black people weren’t citizens) meant slavery could spread and be legally protected across the country.
Many Northerners feared the Dred Scott decision (which said Congress couldn’t ban slavery in the territories and held Black people weren’t citizens) meant slavery could spread and be legally protected across the country.
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