MATCHING Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 23

Multiple Choice

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-David Farragut

• A)a candidate for the presidency in the 1860 election
• B)led the Pottawatomie Massacre
• C)elected president of the Confederate States of America
• D)died in July 1850
• E)caned Charles Sumner
• F)the "Little Giant" who succeeded in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed by breaking it into separate proposals
• G)argued that Congress needed to protect the right of slave owners to take their "property" into the territories
• H)the chief justice for the Dred Scott case
• I)the 1848 Free-Soil presidential candidate
• J)the president who supported the Compromise of 1850

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