War Review for the final people before the CW
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| Man who finally was able to push the Compromise of 1850 through as separate bills | Stephen Douglas
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| President who approved the Compromise of 1850 | Millard Fillmore
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| Massachusetts senator who spoke out for unity and denied the possibility of secession | Daniel Webster
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| Famous explorer who helped California settlers proclaim their independence in the "Bear Flag Republic" | John C. Fremont
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| Ran unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1852 | Winfield Scott
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| President who signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act | Franklin Pierce
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| Ohio politician who was elected governor as an antislavery candidate, but who waffled about nativism | Salmon P. Chase
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| President who urged the admission of California as a free state and wanted the Mexican Cession territory to be free of slavery | Zachary Taylor
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| 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
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| Ran for the presidency in 1848 as the candidate of the Free Soil Party | Martin Van Buren
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| Proposed a series of eight resolutions to resolve the crisis surrounding California's request to enter as a free state | Henry Clay
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| Illinois Democrat elected senator in 1854 with Lincoln's support because he opposed the Kansas-Nebraska bill | Lyman Trumbull
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| 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
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| Spoke out against the Kansas-Nebraska act in campaigns to elect Whig politicians | Abraham Lincoln
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| President who negotiated the resolution of the boundary dispute over the Oregon Territory | James K. Polk
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| 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
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| South Carolina Congressman who attacked a northern Senator on the Senate Floor | Preston Brooks
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| 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
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| 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
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| President who, after much dithering, supported the Lecompton Constitution | James Buchanan
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| First Republican candidate for the presidency | John C. Fremont
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| Former president who ran for the presidency as a Know-Nothing | Millard Fillmore
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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
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| Buchanan's Vice President who ran for president in 1860 as the leader of the Southern Democrats | John C. Breckinridge
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| Denied the nomination of his party at the Charleston convention | Stephen A. Douglas
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| Corrupt Secretary of War in Buchanan's cabinet | John Floyd
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| 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
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| Was regarded as too radical for the Republican nomination in 1860 because of his many speeches predicting an "irrepressible conflict" | William Seward
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| Missouri politician who lost out on the 1860 Republican nomination because he had been a slaveowner and a Know-Nothing | Edward Bates
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| 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
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| Supporters of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election | Wide Awakes
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| Supporters who had given aid to John Brown | Secret Six
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| Tennessee politician who ran for president for the Constitutional Union Party | John Bell
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| Kentucky senator who tried to negotiate a compromise during the secession crisis | John J. Crittenden
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| Influential New York newspaper editor who supported Lincoln in 1860 | Horace Greeley
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| Elected president of the Confederacy | Jefferson Davis
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| Lincoln's chief military advisor at the start of the war | Winfield Scott
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| Said that secession was illegal but that the federal government didn't have the power to stop it | James Buchanan
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| 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
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| 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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| Southern general sent to take command of the militia and guns in Charleston harbor | Pierre G. T. Beauregard
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| Ruled that the president did not have the power to suspend habeas | Roger Taney
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| Secretary of State in Lincoln's cabinet | William Seward
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| Was appointed commander in chief of Virginia's military forces | Robert E. Lee
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| Lincoln's first Secretary of War who had a reputation for corruption | Simon Cameron
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| Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury | Salmon P. Chase
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| Lincoln's attorney general | Edward Bates
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| Union commander at Fort Sumter | Robert Anderson
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| Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy | Gideon Welles
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