Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 75

Multiple Choice

Match each description with the item below.
-Stephen
A. Douglas

• A)was a presidential candidate for the Constitutional Union party in the 1860 election and ran on a highly vague platform
• B)was one of the most experienced presidents but had limited ability, facing events such as the Dred Scott decision early on that resulted in his undoing
• C)was Franklin Pierce's friend and secretary of war who was later elected president of the Confederacy
• D)was a reluctant Whig presidential candidate in 1848 who had previously had no party affiliation
• E)was a South Carolina congressman who openly campaigned for a pro-slavery Kansas and caned Charles Sumner
• F)was the "Little Giant" who succeeded in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed and saw it as a way to stop the slavery debate
• G)argued that Congress needed to protect the right of slave owners to take their property into the territories
• H)was the chief justice for Dred Scott case who was from Maryland and supported the South
• I)was the 1848 Free-Soil presidential candidate, which was unique because he had already been president as part of a different party
• J)was the president who supported the Compromise of 1850 and who had inherited the office rather than running for it

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