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What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?
A. A slave who moved to a free state is considered a citizen.
B. A slave who moved to a free state is not a citizen.
C. A slave had the right to sue in U.S. courts.
D. Slave owners could not transport slaves beyond state lines.


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Answer:

Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States;

A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.

Explanation: im pretty sure its A.