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Answer:

Dredd Scott

Explanation:

It was a court case that said no African-American, slave or free, could claim U.S. citizenship.

A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.