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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 | 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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