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OpenStudy (alison123):

what was the effect of the Dred Scott case on popular sovereignty?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Since the decision effectively made all States slave States, this killed the use of Popular Soverignty with respect to slavery. It no longer mattered what the people of any Stated chose to do. If a slave was purchased in the South than no matter where the owner moved to with that slave, he was still a slave.

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