Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Dred Scott a black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists he sued for freedom on the basis of his long term residence on free soil. Majority of Court decrred that because a slave was private property, he or she could by taken into ANY territory and legally held there in slavery. Republicans were angry about ruling.
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