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War Final Pre-CW Ppl
War Review for the final people before the CW
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Man who finally was able to push the Compromise of 1850 through as separate bills | Stephen Douglas |
| President who approved the Compromise of 1850 | Millard 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 |
| 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 | John C. Calhoun |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Georgia congressman who opposed secession but became Vice President of the Confederacy; he argued that slavery was the cornerstone of the new southern nation. | Alexander H. Stephens |
| Buchanan's Vice President who ran for president in 1860 as the leader of the Southern Democrats | John C. Breckinridge |
| Denied the nomination of his party at the Charleston convention | Stephen A. Douglas |
| Corrupt Secretary of War in Buchanan's cabinet | John Floyd |
| Ohio senator who lost out on the nomination to Lincoln, but took the job of Secretary of the Treasury in Lincoln's cabinet | Salmon P. Chase |
| Was regarded as too radical for the Republican nomination in 1860 because of his many speeches predicting an "irrepressible conflict" | William Seward |
| Missouri politician who lost out on the 1860 Republican nomination because he had been a slaveowner and a Know-Nothing | Edward Bates |
| Pennsylvanian politician who lost out on the 1860 nomination because he had been a member of several different parties and had a reputation of corruption | Simon Cameron |
| Supporters of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election | Wide Awakes |
| Supporters who had given aid to John Brown | Secret Six |
| Tennessee politician who ran for president for the Constitutional Union Party | John Bell |
| Kentucky senator who tried to negotiate a compromise during the secession crisis | John J. Crittenden |
| Influential New York newspaper editor who supported Lincoln in 1860 | Horace Greeley |
| Elected president of the Confederacy | Jefferson Davis |
| Lincoln's chief military advisor at the start of the war | Winfield Scott |
| Said that secession was illegal but that the federal government didn't have the power to stop it | James Buchanan |
| Ruled that blacks were not citizens and that Congress did not have the right to legislate to keep slavery out of the territories | Roger B. Taney |
| Wrote The Impending Crisis which argued that slavery hurt poor whites and the Southern economy. His book was banned throughout the South | Hinton Rowan Helper |
| Southern general sent to take command of the militia and guns in Charleston harbor | Pierre G. T. Beauregard |
| Ruled that the president did not have the power to suspend habeas | Roger Taney |
| Secretary of State in Lincoln's cabinet | William Seward |
| Was appointed commander in chief of Virginia's military forces | Robert E. Lee |
| Lincoln's first Secretary of War who had a reputation for corruption | Simon Cameron |
| Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury | Salmon P. Chase |
| Lincoln's attorney general | Edward Bates |
| Union commander at Fort Sumter | Robert Anderson |
| Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy | Gideon Welles |
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