Dred Scott decision, formally <span>Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford</span>, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional. The decision added fuel to the sectional controversy and pushed the country closer to civil war.
Among constitutional scholars, Scott v. Sandford is widely considered the worst decision ever rendered by the Supreme Court. It has been cited in particular as the most egregious example in the court’s history of wrongly imposing a judicial solution on a political problem. A later chief justice, Charles Evans Hughes, famously characterized the decision as the court’s great “self-inflicted wound.”
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Four American presidents were driven to send weapons and soldier to fight in Vietnam due to the B. fear of communism spreading to many Asian countries. Around this time, US policymakers relied upon a concept of the "Domino Theory," which argued that if one nation were to fall to communism, countries nearby would then become communist.
A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. ... Long large streams are usually called rivers. Streams are important as conduits in the water cycle, instruments in groundwater recharge, and corridors for fish and wildlife migration.
