ANSWER: <u>The Dred Scott v. Sandford Case</u>, decided on March 6, 1857.
As the veterans came back, they returned to the workforce in large numbers to fight for jobs with existing workers who had entered the workforce during the war, unemployment shot up due to the limitation of jobs. The government wasn't worried about this, it was more worried about possible inflation.
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