In Ruling on the Dred Scott Case, the United States

question 38

Multiple Choice

In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court

• A) freed Dred Scott but upheld the Missouri Compromise.
• B) denied Scott's appeal but held that slaves could not be taken into free territories.
• C) essentially upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty.
• D) tried to settle the immediate issue on technical legal grounds.
• E) issued a broad judicial decision ruling that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories.

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