Which Supreme Court case resulted in a ruling that black Americans were "beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race"?
A) Brown v. Board of Education
B) Roe v. Wade
C) Dred Scott v. Sandford
D) Plessy v. Ferguson

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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) is the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States. This decision included the statement that black people were considered inferior and unfit to associate with the white race.

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