The Dred Scott Court case had lasting impacts on American history. Dred Scott was a slave that traveled from Missouri to Illinois after the Missouri Compromise. He believed that once in Illinois he was a free man. In April 1846, he sued for his freedom, arguing that since he had been in both a free state and a free territory he had become legally free, and could not have afterwards reverted to being a slave. The case was brought to the Supreme Court and Roger Taney made the decision. Roger Taney decided in the case of Scott vs. Stanford that African Americans could not be granted citizenship to the United States and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories. Taney also stated that Scott not a citizen of the United States did not even have the privilege of being able to sue in a federal court. It was also decided that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Taney ruled in favor of Stanford and sent the case to a lower court.
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