As a result of the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott case, enslavers had the legal right to take enslaved persons into

The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories. As a result, enslavers could take enslaved people into any U.S. territory, not just Kansas and Nebraska or territories farther west. The correct choice is “any territory.”

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