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Important People
People who greatly mattered in chapters 15 & 16
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Polk | A democrat from Tennessee, he won the presidential election in 1844. He was responsible for Texas becoming a state in 1845. |
| Henry Clay | From Kentucky, helped to pass the senate bill by dividing it into three proposals. |
| John C. Calhoun | Proposed that congress or any other forms of governments had the right to ban or regulate slavery in any way, opposed Clay's plan. |
| Zachary Taylor | A southerner, the Whigs presidential candidate, and a hero of the Mexican War. |
| Martin Van Buren | Former president, and Free-soil Party's chosen presidential candidate. |
| Millard Fillmore | President during 1850, supported a compromise between Clay and the Congress. |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Desperately tried to solve the problems with the proposal, split it into separate parts that the Congress could vote on individually. Nominated as democratic presidential candidate in 1860. |
| John Brown | An abolitionist who believed it was his duty to stop slavery. He vowed to "Strike terror on the hearts of pro-slavery people". |
| John C. Fremont | Republican presidential candidate in the election of 1856. |
| James Buchanan | Democratic presidential candidate in the election of 1856, became president in 1857. |
| Dred Scott | An enslaved African American who fought for his and other slaves' freedom |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican abolitionist who was elected as president in 1860, worked to free slaves. |
| Jefferson Davis | A pro-slavery southerner, president of the Confederate, and an experienced soldier. |
| Thomas Jackson | Known as "Stonewall Jackson", a confederate general who wouldn't give up when the Yankees drove the confederates out. |
| George B. McClellan | Union general, appointed by Abraham Lincoln. |
| Harriet Tubman | A women who escaped slavery herself and help hundreds of other slaves do the same thing. |
| Clara Barton | A U.S. Patent Office clerk, delivered supplies and to tended to the wounded and dying during battle. |
| Loretta Janeta Velázquez | Fought for the South at he First Battle of Bull Run and Shiloh, Later became a Confederate spy. |
| Dorthea Dix | Leader of prison reform, she thought that the living conditions of prisoners were unbearable and she went around the country trying to fix them. |
| General William Tecumseh Sherman | Won an important victory in Chattanooga, Tennessee. |
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