The Dred Scott decision
A) supported emancipation of slaves.
B) supported the Missouri Compromise.
C) reduced the tension between the north and the south.
D) encouraged slaveholder's resistance to abolitionist activists.
Dred Scott was a slave who had been taken to northern states by his master. He sued for his freedom, but the Supreme Court refused to hear his case. The Dred Scott decision encouraged slaveholder's resistance to abolitionist activists.
