In 1857, the Supreme Court sided with the states’ rights supporters, declaring in __________ that Congress had no authority to regulate slavery in the territories.

A) Dred Scott v. Sandford
B) Prigg v. Pennsylvania
C) Brown v. Board of Education
D) Plessy v. Ferguson
E) ?Gibbons v. Ogden


Ans: A) Dred Scott v. Sandford

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