How did the supreme court ruling in Dred scott v. sandford influence the increasing cultural gap between the north and the south
? a. it worried southerners by striking down the Missouri compromise as unconstitutional b. it angered northerners by upholding southern conceptions of slaves as property
c. it led northerners to support expanded states' rights in the face of federal prejudice
d. it convinced southerners that the supreme court was biased toward the north
Dred Scott decision, formally Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford, 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.
