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The slave Dred Scott.
This was before the war - and one of the causes of it, because it divided the two sides further and raised the temperature of the debate.
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When a civil right law was challenged after the civil war the supreme court rule?
in favor of discimination against African Americans because it was not slavery.
Who is a slave who sued for his freedom and lost before the civil war?
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60 US 393 (1857)AnswerDred Scott sued for his freedom.The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in defendant John Sanford's favor, returning Dred Scott and his family to slavery. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Opinion of the Court that held slaves, former slaves and descendants of slaves could never be US citizens.AnswerThat was Dred Scott. He should have claimed his freedom while he was on free soil, but he was brought back into slave country, and tried to claim his freedom when his status was subject to debate. This caused immense trouble - and arguably started the Civil War.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
What happened to reverse the dred Scott ruling?
After defeating the Confederacy in the US Civil War, the United States passed the 13th Amendment, which officially abolished slavery, and the 14th Amendment, which delineated the rights of citizens in the US. The Supreme Court did not actually reverse the ruling, although it acknowledged the change in a case in 1873.
Scott v. Sandford decided that slaves brought into free territory were automatically freed?
No, it decided exactly the opposite. Slaves that got into free territories remained the property of the slaveholder and had to be returned to the slaveholder, because the Supreme Court declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
Where is site of general lee surrender civil war?
He surrendered at the Appomattox Court House on April 9,1865.
