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Dred Scott sought to gain his rights of freedom on the grounds of that he had become free by entering free terirtory and could not be renenslaved

James buccanine the democrats nomination an accomplished legislator and dipolmat for the elections of 1856

John brown was a abolisionlist from Connecticut who had come to kansas to help win the territory for the anti slave forces

Stephan Douglas was a southerner  who proposed  legislation saying no-one could prohibit a territory from having slaves until the territory became a state

Jefferson Davis a former senator from missisipi and secratary of war under Franklin pierce and was elected president

Constitutional Union Party/ a group of states that seceded from the union

Democratic Party orginaly the democratic republican but eventually droped the republican it played a significant role in the polititcal parties

Abraham Lincoln/honest abe believed the federal government had no right to interfere with slavery in the states that already existed