Antebellum people list

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Franklin Pierce
President who signed Kansas-Nebraska Act and enforced Fugitive Slave Act
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David Atchison
Missouri politician and leader of pro-slavery supporters during Bleeding Kansas
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John Brown
Raided Harper's Ferry, intensifying Southern fears of slave uprisings
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', a novel that exposed the reality of slavery
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Charles Sumner
Senator who was physically assaulted on the Senate floor
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James Buchanan
15th President of the United States, unable to prevent South Carolina's secession
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Charles Finney
Influential evangelist during the Second Great Awakening
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Theodore Weld
Co-founder of the anti-slavery society
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Arthur Tappan
Co-founder of the anti-slavery society
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Lewis Tappan
Co-founder of the anti-slavery society
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John C. Frémont
Republican opponent in free states during Buchanan's presidency
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Millard Fillmore
Opponent in slave states during Buchanan's presidency
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Republican Party
Emerging political party challenging Democratic dominance
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Know-Nothings
Declined after Buchanan's win, contributing to their end
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Whig Party
19th-century American political party opposing executive power concentration
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Angelina Grimke
Married Theodore Weld and gave a speech at the annual antislavery convention
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William Lloyd Garrison
Prominent American abolitionist and editor of 'The Liberator'
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John Quincy Adams
6th US President and defender of free speech and antislavery activism
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Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Killed by a pro-slavery mob, strengthening the cause for abolition
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Harriet Tubman
Famous abolitionist and Underground Railroad operator
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David Walker
Influential abolitionist whose appeal faced bans
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David Ruggles
Abolitionist who fought slavery and operated the first Black lending library
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Black abolitionist, educator, and newspaper founder
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Author of the Seneca Falls Declaration, demanding equal rights for women
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John Gast
Painter of the Manifest Destiny painting
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John L. O'Sullivan
Coined the term 'Manifest Destiny'
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Stephen Austin
Established a settlement in Texas
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Antonio López de Santa Anna
Formed a new Catholic, centralist, conservative government in Mexico
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Andrew Jackson
President who recognized the Republic of Texas on his last day in office
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Zachary Taylor
President and hero of the Mexican War
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Winfield Scott
General nicknamed 'Old Fuss and Feathers'
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Abraham Lincoln

US president during the civil war. Emphasied slavery as a moral issue

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Stephen Douglas
Politician known as the 'Little Giant'
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Frederick Douglass
Ex-slave and popular abolitionist, editor of the North Star
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David Wilmot

Introduced legislation declaring neither slavery nor involuntary servitude is allowed in territory gained from Mexican Cession

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Henry Clay
Politician known as the 'Great Compromiser'
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John Calhoun
Southern politician who argued for the Fugitive Slave Law
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Daniel Webster
Northern politician who lost support after agreeing with fugitive slave laws
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Anthony Burns
Escaped slave forced to return to slavery, sparking outrage
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Davy Crockett
Representative from Tennessee and hero of the Texas Revolution