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Challenges to Slavery

Question 10 • (MACS) 2021 NY-US History CR Summer Quarter 1

Which was found to be unconstitutional based on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Scott v. Sandford?

Answer
A
the Compromise of 1850
B
the Kansas-Nebraska Act
C
the Fifth Amendment
D
the Missouri Compromise

Explanation

In Scott v. Sandford (the Dred Scott decision), the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories. The Court therefore declared the Missouri Compromise, which had barred slavery in parts of the Louisiana Purchase, unconstitutional. The ruling did not strike down the Fifth Amendment itself.

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