In the case of ________, the Supreme Court ruled that a black man, slave or free, was "chattel" and had no rights under a white man's government; it also ruled that Congress had no power to ban slavery in the western territories.
A) Plessy v. Ferguson
B) Craig v. Boren
C) Dred Scott v. Sandford
D) Brown v. Board of Education
E) Amos v. Colorado
Answer: C