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Question	Answer
Henry Clay	senator of Kentucky worked out the Missouri compromise made an issue that greatly divided northerners and southerners
john C. Calhoun	Senator of south Carolina
Daniel Webster	Massachusetts senator argued for Clay's compromise to help the Bitterness that was dividing the nation
Johnn Brown	Anti slavery settler led 7 men to a pro slavery settlement murdered 5 men and boys shows that slavery was brutal he was white
Stephen Douglas	Wanted to see a railroad be built from Illinois to cali but he wasn't allowed to because it was to close to slave states he proposed that they can move slavery in different areas instead senator Kansas Nebraska act
Harriet Beecher Stowe	Wrote a book about uncle Toms cabin(man in slavery who was beat to death by his owner. changed peoples opinion about slavery thought it was propaganda-vocal
Dred Scott	enslaved person--owned by a doctor he was trying to sue him for freedom But that wasn't granted because he was black and that means you are not a citizen,and just because you are living in free territory that doesn't mean anything Abraham Lincoln should up for him
Abraham Lincoln Image: 68b168eb-d195-471b-9338-9322f093f72b (image/png)	Illinois lawyer 16th president married Marry Todd ran for senate against Douglas should up for "no" slavery
Roger B. Taney	wrote decision for court Fred Scott is not a free man

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