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-1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. The decision denied the federal government the right to exclude slavery in the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens.

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The Dred Scott decision was the 1857 Supreme Court ruling that denied the federal government the power to prohibit slavery in the territories and declared that African Americans, whether slave or free, were not U.S. citizens.

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