The Dred Scoot decision also called the worst decision made by the supreme court, was a case brought to the supreme court in which slave Dred Scoot sued for his freedom after the death of his master claiming that he was taken to and lived in a free state were slavery was not legal, so in a sense he was a free man and not a slave anymore. During the period of his court case the Northern and southern states were still divided on the issues of slavery expanding into the territory in the United States. The Court made two rulings on this case, one was that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories only states could prohibit slavery and the other was that Dred Scot was not a free man Chief Justice Roger B.
