Man who finally was able to push the Compromise of 1850 through as separate bills
Stephen Douglas
President who approved the Compromise of 1850
Fillmore
Massachusetts senator who spoke out for unity and denied the possibility of secession
Daniel Webster
Famous explorer who helped California settlers proclaim their independence in the "Bear Flag Republic
John C. Fremont
Ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1852
Winfield Scott
President who signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Franklin Pierce
Ohio politician who was elected governor as an antislavery candidate, but who waffled about nativism
Salmon P. Chase
President who urged the admission of California as a free state and wanted the Mexican Cession territory to be free of slavery
Zachary Taylor
Democratic senator who ran for the presidency in 1848 on a platform advocated popular sovereignty to determine the status of slavery in the Mexican Cession territories
Lewis Cass
Ran for the presidency in 1848 as the candidate of the Free Soil Party
Martin Van Buren
Mississippi governor who was indicted for assisting a military expedition to conquer Cuba
John Quitman
Proposed a series of eight resolutions to resolve the crisis surrounding California's request to enter as a free state
Henry Clay
Illinois Democrat elected senator in 1854 with Lincoln's support because he opposed the Kansas-Nebraska bill
Lyman Trumbull
Argued against the Compromise of 1850 because he felt that it allowed for slavery which, however constitutional, should be abolished because of a higher law than the Constitution
William Seward
Spoke out against the Kansas-Nebraska act in campaigns to elect Whig politicians
Abraham Lincoln
President who negotiated the resolution of the boundary dispute over the Oregon Territory
James K. Polk
Senator who went to his death adamant in his belief that Congress did not have the power to keep slavery out of the territories
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