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Famous CW politician

Famous CW politicians

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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 slave-owner 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 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
Republican leader of German-Americans who campaigned for Lincoln in 1860 Carl Schurz
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
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