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The 32 pages that link to Dred Scott v. Sandford, each with the reason it gives.

• American Civil WarRelated: The ruling deepened Northern opposition and weakened prospects for political compromise.

• Abraham LincolnRelated: Lincoln opposed the ruling’s implications for slavery’s national expansion.

• Louisiana PurchaseRelated: The Court later connected congressional authority over slavery to the Louisiana Purchase’s territorial government.

• Fourteenth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionCompared with: The Citizenship Clause repudiated its denial of national citizenship to Black Americans.

• Abolitionism in the United StatesCompared with: The ruling intensified the conflict abolitionists opposed and rejected their claims to equal rights.

• Supreme Court of the United StatesBroader topic: Its ruling intensified sectional conflict and was repudiated by constitutional amendments.

• Kansas–Nebraska ActRelated: The decision intensified disputes over Congress’s power after the act reopened territorial slavery.

• Compromise of 1850Compared with: The ruling undermined the assumption that Congress could settle territorial slavery disputes through compromise legislation.

• Missouri CompromiseRelated: The Court declared the territorial restriction in the compromise unconstitutional.

• Henry ClayRelated: The ruling further undermined the compromises over slavery’s expansion that Clay had tried to preserve.

• Bleeding KansasRelated: Its ruling complicated the claim that settlers could decide slavery’s status in Kansas.

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850Related: It extended the era's conflicts over slavery and federal authority beyond fugitive rendition.

• John C. CalhounRelated: The ruling echoed proslavery constitutional arguments Calhoun had pressed before his death.

• Reconstruction AmendmentsCompared with: The Fourteenth Amendment repudiated its citizenship ruling.

• Underground RailroadCompared with: The decision sharpened the legal conflict over slavery and the status of Black people in free territory.

• Harriet Beecher StoweRelated: The ruling intensified the national conflict over slavery that Stowe’s fiction had already brought before the public.

• Northwest OrdinanceCompared with: The ruling rejected Congress's authority to impose the kind of territorial slavery ban found in the ordinance.

• Wilmot ProvisoCompared with: The decision rejected the congressional authority the proviso assumed.

• Franklin PierceRelated: The ruling followed Pierce’s presidency and reinforced the sectional tensions his administration failed to contain.

• James BuchananRelated: Buchanan endorsed the decision before it was announced, deepening sectional conflict.

• States' rightsBroader topic: Its ruling intensified disputes over slavery, federal power, and the status of territories.

• The LiberatorRelated: The decision intensified the antislavery crisis covered by the paper.

• John Brown's raid on Harpers FerryRelated: The decision illustrates the legal entrenchment Brown sought to challenge through direct action.

• Stephen A. DouglasRelated: The ruling challenged the legal basis of Douglas’s popular-sovereignty position and became a central debate topic.

• MissouriRelated: The case began with an enslaved man who had lived in Missouri.

• Roger B. TaneyRelated: Taney wrote the majority opinion, making this case the defining judgment of his tenure.

• Antebellum SouthRelated: The ruling strengthened slaveholders’ claims and inflamed opposition across the North.

• American political historyCompared with: The ruling intensified conflict over slavery, citizenship, and the Court’s role in national politics.

• John C. BreckinridgeRelated: Its proslavery constitutional reasoning aligned with the politics of Breckinridge’s Southern Democratic constituency.

• George FitzhughRelated: The decision arose amid the national conflict over slavery that shaped Fitzhugh’s political context.

• History of MarylandCompared with: Its national proslavery ruling contrasts with Maryland’s later abolition through its 1864 constitution.

• History of MissouriBroader topic: The lawsuit began in Missouri and made the state central to national slavery disputes.