The crossword solution for the term FAMOUS SCOTT is DRED. Dred Scott was a famous African-American slave who sued for his freedom in the mid-1800s. He argued that since he had lived in a free state and a free territory, he should be declared a free man. His case eventually reached the Supreme Court, which ruled against him in 1857. This ruling helped to fuel the Civil War and was eventually overturned by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.