1. The justices were no more able to emancipate Dred Scott than they were able to emancipate themselves.

2. Because Dred Scott was property, he could never become a citizen of any state.

3. Dred Scott lived in Missouri, where slavery was legal.

4. Dred Scott demanded his freedom, because of the years he had spent in places where slavery was illegal.

5. The several points of the Dred Scott decision, in connection with Senator Douglas's "care not" policy, constitute the piece of machinery in its present state of advancement.

6. The Dred Scott decision did not calm the storm that divided the nation. Instead, it increased its fury.

7. The decision was made in the case of Dred Scott, a negro slave.

8. Early in eighteen fifty-seven, the United States Supreme Court announced one of its most important rulings. The high court decided the case of a slave named Dred Scott.

9. The reputed author of the Nebraska Bill finds an early occasion to make a speech at this capitol indorsing the Dred Scott decision, and vehemently denouncing all opposition to it.

10. This week on our series, we tell more about James Buchanan. And we discuss his influence in the Supreme Court ruling in the case of a slave from Missouri named Dred Scott.

11. Buchanan had written to him asking when the court would act on the Dred Scott case.

12. Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

13. Plainly enough now, it was an exactly fitted niche for the Dred Scott decision afterward to come in, and declare that perfect freedom of the people to be just no freedom at all.

14. James Buchanan was sworn-in as president at the time of the Dred Scott case.

15. The fear of blacks with guns was one of the reasons behind the Supreme Court's notorious decision in the Dred Scott case.

16. So Buchanan wrote to Grier. He told him that a strong decision in the Dred Scott case might do much to bring peace to the country.

17. The majority decided that a negro was not a citizen. Therefore, they said(sentence dictionary), Dred Scott had no right to ask the court to hear his case.

18. Then Douglas questioned Lincoln's statement on the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision.