[DOC] [TLE] Supreme Court rules in Dred Scott case - Mar 06, 1857 - HISTORY ... [PAR] The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision on Sanford v. ... slavery, which 
in 1861 erupted with the outbreak of the American Civil War. .... These early 
stories helped shape his own signature writing style, later known as magical 
realism. [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott Case - Black History - HISTORY.com [PAR] The election of Abraham Lincoln was a tipping point on the path to Civil War. ... 
Civil War (1861-65), the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in the case of ... 
The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived 
... After Emerson died, the Blows apparently helped Scott sue Emerson's widow 
for... [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott - Wikipedia [PAR] Dred Scott (c. 1799  September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American 
man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his 
wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, 
popularly known as the "Dred Scott Decision". ... The United States Supreme 
Court decided 72 against Scott, finding that... [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott decision | law case | Britannica.com [PAR] Legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (72) that a 
slave ... were filed by or on behalf of slaves in the decades before the Civil War. [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott | HistoryNet [PAR] Dred Scott Decision summary: Dred Scott was a slave who sought his freedom 
through .... Dred Scott Decision: The Lawsuit That Started The Civil War ... Scott 
then demonstrated a remarkable ability to find lawyers to bring a series of 
lawsuits aimed ... Their lawyers relied on an 1824 Missouri Supreme Court case, 
Winny v. [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) - Infoplease [PAR] By the mid-1850s, sectional conflict over the extension of slavery into the ... the 
Supreme Court took the unusual step of hearing the case of a fugitive slave ... As 
a slave, moreover, Scott was property and had no right to bring suit in federal 
courts. ... A major landmark on the road to the Civil War, the Dred Scott decision 
was... [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery - Landmark Law Cases and ... [PAR] The slave Dred Scott claimed that his residence in a free state transformed ... the 
ruling sent shock waves through the nation and helped lead to civil war. ... short 
introduction to the most notorious Supreme Court decision in American history.... [DOC] [TLE] Moving Toward Equality Under Law - Constitutional Rights Foundation [PAR] It also caused a mini-Civil War in Kansas as pro- and anti-slavery settlers flooded 
the state and took to arms. ... As tensions mounted, a U.S. Supreme Court 
decision inflamed the nation. ... In 1857, the Supreme Court heard the case of 
Dred Scott v. ... state, and Wisconsin, a free territory, before bringing him back to 
Missouri. [DOC] [TLE] Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) | Civil War on the Western Border: The ... [PAR] John F.A. Sandford; Purpose of the case: To determine whether a slave, Dred ... 
Sandford, where the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Scott's claim to freedom by a 
vote of 7-2. ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act set the backdrop for the Dred Scott 
decision. ... By 1857, when Dred Scott made it to the Supreme Court, the 
Northern and... [DOC] [TLE] The Reaction to the Dred Scott Decision | Oswald | Voces Novae ... [PAR] The Supreme Court of the United States rendered its decision, ruling that Dred 
Scott was still a slave. ... breakdown in American politics, the southern secession 
and Civil War. ... In 1818, the Blow family moved to Alabama, bringing with them 
their slave ... [18] In December of 1847, Dred Scott was able to continue his case 
for... [DOC] [TLE] Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 - Collection Connections ... [PAR] 1501  Spanish settlers bring first African slaves to the New World (Santo 
Domingo). ... 1857

Question: The Supreme Court's 7-2 decision in this slavery case helped bring on the Civil War
Answer: Dred Scott