Chapter 18 & 19 APUSH Matching People, Places, & Events

Lewis Cass

Democratic presidental candidate in 1848, original proponent of the idea of popular sovereignty

Zachary Taylor

Whig president who nearly destroyed the Compromise of 1850 before he died in office

Martin Van Buren

Former president who became the candidate of the antislavery Free Soil party in the election of 1848

Caleb Cushing

American diplomat who negotiated the Treaty of Wanghia with China in 1844

Harriet Tubman

Famous conductor on the Underground Railroad who rescued more than three hundred slaves from bondage

Daniel Webster

Northern spokesman whose support for the Compromise of 1850 earned him the hatred of abolitionists

William Seward

New York senator who argued that the expansion of slavery was forbidden by a higher law

Millard Fillmore

New Yorker who supported and signed the Compromise of 1850 after he suddenly became president that same year

Franklin Pierce

Weak Democratic president whose pro-southern cabinet pushed aggressive expansionist schemes

Winfield Scott

Military hero of the Mexican War who became the Whigs' last presidential candidate in 1852

John C. Calhoun

South Carolina senator who fiercely defended southern rights and opposed compromise with the North in debates of 1850

William Walker

American proslavery filibusterer who siezed control of Nicaragua and made himself president in the 1850s

Matthew Perry

American naval commander who opened Japan to the West in 1854

James Gadsden

American minister to Mexico in the 1850s who acquired land for the United States that would enable the building of a southern transcontinental railroad

Stephen A. Douglas

Illinois politician who helped smooth over sectional conflict in 1850, but then reignited it in 1854

Jefferson Davis

Former United States senator who, in 1861, became the president of what called itself a new nation

Hinton R. Helper

Souther-born author whose book attacking slavery's effects on whites aroused northern opinion

Henry Ward Beecher

Preacher-abolitionist who funded weapons for antislavery pioneers in Kansas

Dred Scott

Black slave whose unsuccessful attempt to win his freedom deepened the sectional controversy

James Buchanan

Weak Democratic president whose manipulation by proslavery forces divided his own party

Charles Sumner

Abolitionist senator whose verbal attack on the South provoked a physical assault that severely injured him

Preston Brooks

Southern congressman whose bloody attack on a northern senator fueled sectional hatred

John C. Fremont

Romantic western hero and the first Republican candidate for president

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The little woman who wrote the book that made this Great War" (The Civil War)

Montgomery, Alabama

Site where seven seceding states united to declare their independence from the United States

Stephen A. Douglas

Leading northern Democrat whose presidential hopes fell victim to the conflict over slavery

Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

Scene of militant abolitionist John Brown's massacre of proslavery men in 1856

John C. Breckinridge

Buchanan's vice president, nominated for president by breakaway southern Democrats in 1860

Harpers Ferry, Virginia

Site of a federal srsenal where a militant abolitionist attemped to start a slave rebellion

John Brown

Fanatical and bloody-minded abolitionist martyr admired in the North and hated in the South