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After the death of Emerson, Scott and his family were hired out to work for other family by Mrs. …show more content…
The American public reacted very strongly to the Dred Scott decision. The new Republican Party, founded to prohibit the spread of slavery, vowed to gain control of Congress and the courts. The political campaign of 1860, led to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States. The outcome of the Dred Scott decision leads Abraham Lincoln to publicly speak out against the ruling (Wallance). The Dred Scott case was one of the most catastrophic rulings in American History and will forever change the true definition of slavery. The force behind the ruling of the Dred Scott V. Sandford Case may have been the flare the start of the Civil War