Dred Scott Case

<Tab/>In what some call the most infamous case in its history, the Supreme Court case of Scott v Sandford produced one of the most controversial and most heavily debated decisions ever. The conditions of the case seem to be simple to understand, yet the logistics of it make the case notorious. Another reason the case was so significant was because it came in the wake of Bleeding Kansas and only 3 years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act. At the point of the Dred Scott case the country had already been struggling for 3 years to identify with the implications of popular sovereignt…