History Chapter 15 - People
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Henry Clay | A senator from Kentucky, he introduced the Compromise of 1850 on the Senate floor. |
| Daniel Webster | A senator from Massachusetts, he gave a famous speech in the Senate on March 7th in favor of the Compromise of 1850. |
| John C. Calhoun | A Senator from South Carolina, he asked that the slave states be allowed to secede from the Union. |
| Anthony Burns | A fugitive slave arrested in Boston in 1854, abolitionist killed a deputy marshal while trying to free him-he was eventually returned to Virginia. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Spoke out powerfully against slavery. |
| Franklin Pierce | Became president in 1852, he supported the Compromise of 1850 and received Southern support for his presidential race. |
| Stephen Douglas | A senator from Illinois, he proposed popular sovereignty as a solution to the expansion of slavery in the Western territories (known as the little giant). |
| James Buchanan | A democratic candidate for president in 1856, he had a great deal of political experience, and won the election. |
| John C. Fremont | A Republican candidate for president in 1856, he was against the spread of slavery (he lost the election). |
| Dred Scott | A slave who sued for his freedom in the Missouri state court. The case went all the way up to the Supreme Court of the US, which ruled that 1) African Americans could never be citizens; 2) the slave had returned to Missouri, a slave state, so his status depended on the laws of Missouri; 3) The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. |
| Roger B. Taney | He wrote the majority opinion for the US Supreme Court in the case of the Dred Scott decision in March 1857. |
| Abraham Lincoln | He was the Republican candidate for President in 1860. |
| John Brown | An abolitionist who led a raid where he and his men took over the arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion. |
| John C. Breckinridge | He was the Southern Democratic candidate for President in 1860. |
| John J. Crittenden | He was a senator from Kentucky who presented a plan to save the Union from secession. |
| Jefferson Davis | Elected president of the Confederacy. |
| Stephen Douglas | He was the Northern Democratic candidate for President in 1860. |
| John Bell | He was the Constitutional Union Party candidate for President in 1860. |
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