Question

please help me! i rlly need this! <3 thank youu Based on Dred Scott v. Sandford, how would Taney reply to Lincoln’s objections to the Dred Scott case?

Answer 1

Southerners approved the Dred Scott decision believing Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in the territories. Abraham Lincoln reacted with disgust to the ruling and was spurred into political action, publicly speaking out against it.