Kansas-Nebraska Act and The Dred Scott Case

The Kansas- Nebraska act was an act that was passed to separate the land into territories.Kansas and Nebraska were these territories and they were used for new settlements.This act also repealed the Missouri compromise which angered the north because the Missouri compromise was keeping slavery out of their side. Without the compromise, slavery began to spread there and this caused more controversy. Another thing that caused controversy was the Dred Scott case. The Dred Scott v. Sanford was a case in which a slave (Dred Scott) claimed that since he had lived in a free state for a long time ,he was now free. This case was taken to the Supreme court and the justices ruled.They ruled in favor of Stanford and said that since slaves were not citizens of the United States they could not sue in Federal courts.They also said that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories. In the end Dred Scott was a slave and would remain a slave.