Which best states how responses to the Scott v. Sandford decision differed in the North and South?

The Supreme Court’s Scott v. Sandford decision pleased many Southerners because it protected slaveholders’ ability to take enslaved people into U.S. territories and denied that Black people could be citizens. Many Northerners feared the ruling would allow slavery to spread into more territories. Therefore, the best answer is “People in the South welcomed the decision, while people in the North feared it.”

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