Based on the excerpt below, what was the impact of the
Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Dred Scott v Sanford,
1857?
It must be admitted that Congress possesses no power to
regulate or abolish slavery within the States; and that, if this
act had attempted any such legislation, it would have been a
nullity.
It allowed popular sovereignty in the Oregon
Territory which increased sectional tensions over
the expansion of slavery in the west
It led to stricter fugitive slave laws which caused a
shift in focus of the abolitionist movement to
support more radical forms of protests
It allowed 7 new slave states to join the Union
O which increased the growth of the American
economy
It led to the potential for slavery to spread
anywhere which increased sectional tensions over
balance of power between slave and free states