SAT US History Practice Question
In his opinion in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, Chief Justice Taney stated all the following EXCEPT:
- A.The Fifth Amendment protected slaveowners' rights to their property.
- B.The Missouri Compromise had been unconstitutional because it violated slaveowners' property rights.
- C.The framers of the Constitution clearly had not intended the Constitution to apply to anyone of African descent.
- D.Slave status did not depend on geography but traveled everywhere with a person who was a slave.
- E.As long as society provided separate but equal opportunities to African slaves, it did not have to do anything more for them.
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