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People = 3 points per 36point total

Chapter 15 People. People = 3 points per 36point total. Abraham Lincoln. Lawyer from Illinois who debated Douglas for the Illinois Senate seat in 1858 and lost; he ran for President on the Republican ticket in 1860 and won. Daniel Webster.

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People = 3 points per 36point total

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  1. Chapter 15 People People = 3 points per 36point total

  2. Abraham Lincoln • Lawyer from Illinois who debated Douglas for the Illinois Senate seat in 1858 and lost; he ran for President on the Republican ticket in 1860 and won

  3. Daniel Webster • Senator from Massachusetts who fought for the passage of the Compromise of 1850

  4. Dred Scott • Missouri slave who began his legal quest in 1846 to gain his freedom, his case finally reached the Supreme Court in 1856, with the Court announcing its decision against him in 1857

  5. Harriet Beecher Stowe • Her best selling novel, published in 1852, provided many northerners with their first real look at the institution of slavery

  6. Henry Clay • Senator from Kentucky that work on his last compromise in 1850

  7. James Buchanan • Democrat elected President in 1856; spoke against secession but did nothing to stop it

  8. Jefferson Davis • Former Senator from Mississippi who became the only president of the Confederate States of America in February, 1861

  9. John Brown • Kansas abolitionist who led raids against a pro-slave town killing 5 men; led his followers to attack the federal arsenal Harpers Ferry, Virginia, he planned to lead a slave revolt in Oct 1859, he failed and was tried and executed for murder and treason

  10. John C. Calhoun • Senator from South Carolina who made his final defense of the South and slavery in the Senate debates on the Compromise of 1850

  11. John C. Fremont • In 1856, he was the 1st Republican candidate for president, even though he didn’t win the election it showed the power of the new Republican Party

  12. Roger Taney • Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court who wrote the decision in the Dred Scott case; he was nominated by Andrew Jackson in 1835

  13. Stephen A. Douglas • Senator from Illinois who helped Clay get the Compromise of 1850 passed; created the Kansas-Nebraska Act; debated Lincoln for the Illinois senate seat in 1858; ran for President on the northern Democratic ticket in 1860 but lost

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