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- 3. an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861
- 10. the fifth chief justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864
- 11. empowered slaveowners to seize runaway slaves, ordered state and federal authorities to help capture and return runaway slaves, and fined those who assisted runaway slaves
- 13. a town in west virginia
- 14. an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865
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- 1. he principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people
- 2. an American author and abolitionist
- 4. territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
- 5. a conservative political party that existed in the United States during the middle 19th century
- 6. one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States
- 7. an American explorer, military officer, and politician
- 8. political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories.
- 9. established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act
- 12. one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party for president in the 1860 presidential election