MATCHING Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 61

Multiple Choice

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Zachary Taylor

• A)was a candidate for the presidency in the 1860 election
• B)led 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)was the chief justice for Dred Scott case
• I)was the 1848 Free-Soil presidential candidate
• J)was the president who supported the Compromise of 1850

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