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→Dred Scott decision
What the Dred Scott decision meant was any slave could be taken anywhere in the Union without fear that the owner of the slave would lose his property; a slave was private property, Taney stated, and according to the Fifth Amendment could not be taken from the owner without due process. [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=60&invol=393]
What the Dred Scott decision meant was any slave could be taken anywhere in the Union without fear that the owner of the slave would lose his property; a slave was private property, Taney stated, and according to the Fifth Amendment could not be taken from the owner without due process. [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=60&invol=393]
The decision further frictionalized North/South relations, as a stunned North realized that free states had to support the institution of slavery.
The decision further deterorated North/South relations, as a stunned North realized that free states had to support the institution of slavery.
===Emergence of Lincoln===
===Emergence of Lincoln===