In its ruling on the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court decided that Congress could not ban slavery in

In Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in U.S. territories. The Court reasoned that enslaved people were property and that Congress could not deprive slaveholders of that property in the territories. Therefore, the correct choice is territories.

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