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CW politicians

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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   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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Mississippi governor who was indicted for assisting a military expedition to conquer Cuba   John Quitman  
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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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