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 denied that African Americans could be U.S. citizens and ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories. Many white Southerners welcomed the ruling because it protected the expansion of slavery. Many Northerners feared it because it could allow slavery to spread into new territories.

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