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Question | Answer |
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South Carolina Congressman who attacked a northern Senator on the Senate Floor | Preston Brooks |
Espoused the mudsill theory in a series of essays entitled Sociology for the South and Cannibals All! He believed that slavery was the natural condition of society and that free labor harmed America | George Fitzhugh |
Missouri Senator who argued passionately for Missouri supporters of slavery to flood into Kansas to influence the voting there in favor of slavery | David Atchison |
Served as territorial governor of Kansas during the Lecompton controversy and recommended that the president not acknowledge the constitution. | Robert Walker |
Spoke on the Senate floor to say that proslavery senators had embraced a harlot, slavery. He was caned and seriously injured as a result. | Charles Sumner |
President who, after much dithering, supported the Lecompton Constitution | James Buchanan |
First Republican candidate for the presidency | John C. Fremont |
Former president who ran for the presidency as a Know-Nothing | Millard Fillmore |