LAD 15: Dred Scott Decision

The Dred Scott Decision was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, Cheif Justice Roger B. Taney, that ruled that people of African descentim brought to the US and forced to be slaves, or their descendants whether or not they were slaves—could never be citizens of the US, and that the Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories. It also ruled that slaves could not sue their masters or anyone else.