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Chapter 12 People Review
Covers all of the highlighted and other important people mentioned in the chapter.
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History
8th Grade
04/18/2008

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William Lloyd Garrison
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abolitionist who wrote a newspaper called The Liberator which stimulated the growth of the antislavery movement.
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Grimké Sisters
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abolitionists who were the first white women to stand up to slavery; asked for slaves instead of money from their parents/ wrote American Slavery as it Is.
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David Walker

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Abolitionist/writer who encouraged slaves to rebel and overthrow the whites because of all the blood that had been shed.
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Frederick Douglass
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most widely known African American abolitionist who escaped slavery and spoke at many slavery protests and returned to United States to fight slavery at its source
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Harriet Tubman
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most successful African American woman conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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James K. Polk
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President who agreed on the annexations of Texas
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David Wilmot
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person who created the Wilmot Proviso
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Zachary Taylor
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President who was in support of Henry Clay's compromise; died in the presidency
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Millard Fillmore
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President who took Zachary Taylor's place
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Stephen Douglas
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Senator who split Clay's plans into 5 different bills called the Compromise of 1850. Also in the debates with Lincoln.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin which described slavery as an inhuman system; notified North of the troubles of slavery.
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John Brown
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Abolitionist who believed it was his God given duty to attack slavery at no cost.
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Charles Sumner
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Senator who criticized antislavery senators such as Preston Brooks
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Preston Brooks
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Representative who beat up Charles Sumner in congress.
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John C. Frémont
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Represenatative of california who was chosen as a candidate for president and lost.
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James Buchanan

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in the election as Fremont, was from the demorcrat party and one by a landslide
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Dred Scott
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African American who thought he was free was not, and was sent to the supreme court where the chief justice ruled that slaves were property.
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Roger B. Taney
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Chief Justice of the supreme court in the Dred Scot Decision.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Republican lawyeer who became president during the civil war and debated with Douglas.
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John Crittenden
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Senator who proposed last minute compromises to stop the South from seceding; it failed.
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Jefferson Davis
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The president of the Confederate States
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