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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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