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Causes of the Civil War: "Bleeding Kansas" and the Dred Scott Decision


The decision was not unanimous, and it did not settle the slavery battle, it intensified it. Southerners were jubilant over the decision, for now they and their slavery interests were protected by the Constitution. Northern abolitionists, on the other hand, were furious, and they felt that the decision was not valid law. States had the right to proclaim citizenship to any of its inhabitants, and the U.S. Supreme Court, in their opinion, could not legally rule in the manner in which they did. This decision set the stage for further disagreement between antislavery advocates and proponents of the Southern way of life.

Source Used: Ordeal By Fire, James MacPherson, 1992.

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