a slave even after living in free territory and concluded that the law guaranteeing slavery would not enter the new Midwestern territories of the United States was in fact unconstitutional. The issue further separated a nation ideologically which end only after a long civil war. The issue of slavery and its grasp on America was very deep both socially and economically. The Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford only fueled the arrival of the American Civil War by stiring up uneasy relations between Northerners and Southerners.
             Northern and Southern states had been different economically and ideologically in the 19th century. However, during the 1840's and 1850's, the situation dramatically changed. The Compromise of 1850 had served as a clear warning that the slavery issue had returned. The territories that came out of the Mexican cessions of 1848 immediately applied for statehood and were ideologically being stirred over the debate between Proslavery and antislavery forces.free states and slave states wanted to have a majority of representatives in the house inorder to pass their ideological public policy about the slavery issue. the presidential election of 1856 turned ugly when southern states threatened secession if a candidate from the antislavery Republican party won. In the heat of all this controversy a black slave from Missouri named Dred Scott began to make national headlines
             Scott was Born somewhere in Virginia and later moved to St. Louis, Missouri, with his owners in 1830. Scott was sold to Dr. John Emerson between 1831 and 1833. Emerson, an Army doctor, was constantly traveling. From the time Emerson purchased Scott till his death in 1843, Scott had lived for extended periods of time in Fort Armstrong, Illinois, Fort Snelling, Wisconsin Territory, Fort Jessup, Louisiana, and in St. Louis. Scott lived for seven years in areas that outlawed slavery. For example, Illinois was a free state and the Missouri C...