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1850s

Roger Taney- (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864, he is most remembered for delivering the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

Daniel Webster- (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) leader of the Whig Party, he was one of the nation's most prominent conservatives, leading opposition to Democrat Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party. He was a spokesman for modernization, banking and industry

John Brown- (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist, who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie ...

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in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed series of debates

Preston Brooks- (August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857) was a Democratic Congressman from South Carolina, known for severely beating Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate with a cane in response to an insult

Events:

The Wilmot Proviso (1846)

o The Wilmot Proviso would have banned any territory acquired from Mexico during the Mexican War. Unfortunately, the bill was passed several times in the House but failed in the Senate where there was a majority of southerners

Election of 1848

Compromise of 1850- proposed by Henry Clay and it stated that California is a free state, congress to pass a strict and enforceable fugitive law, slave trade to be abolished in DC

Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

o Part of the Compromise of 1850 and declared that all runaway slaves had to be brought ...

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