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