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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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