What did Dred Scott base his claim for freedom on? A. His mother was white,
B. His master had taken him to a free territory
C. His grandfather had been free,
D. Slavery was against his constitutional rights.

B: his master had taken him to a free territory

The Cherokee War of 1776 (also The Second Cherokee War), was a series of conflicts and raids between the American colonists and native Cherokee tribes. The cause of these conflicts were due in part to the western expansion of the frontiersmen into Cherokee lands in western North Carolina.