Questions:
i. How did this case help "hasten the arrival of the American Civil War"? This was due to the fact that the case brought the divides of slavery ever more open in the North and the South. The situation was such that slavery could no longer be tolerated in the North and the Southern states did not want to give it up either so a status quo prevailed and the countries went to war.
ii. On what basis did Scott claim that he should be considered "free"? Scott was a free man as he was in a Northern ...
