AP US History People to Know Chapter 18 Flashcards
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| 5628625283 | Lewis Cass (1782-1866) | War veteran, diplomat and U.S. Senator, He ran as the Democratic candidate in the 1848 election, losing to Zachary Taylor. He is best known as the father of "popular sovereignty", the notion that the sovereign people of a territory should themselves decide the issue of slavery. | 0 | |
| 5628625284 | Millard Filmore (1800-1874) | New York Congressman and vice president under Taylor, He took over the presidency after Taylor's death in 1850. He, a practical politician, threw his support behind the Compromise of 1850, ensuring its passage. He was passed over for the Whig nomination in 1852 when the party chose to select the legendary war hero, Winfield Scott. | 1 | |
| 5628625285 | Matthew C. Perry (1794-1858) | American Naval Officer sent by Millard Fillmore to negotiate a trade deal with Japan. Backed by an impressive naval fleet, He showered Japanese negotiators with lavish gifts. Combining military bravado with diplomatic finesse, he negotiated the landmark Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854, ending Japan's two centuries of isolation. | 2 | |
| 5628625286 | Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) | Pro-Southern Democrat from New Hampshire who became the fourteenth president of the United States on a platform of territorial expansion. As president, he tried to provoke war with Spain and seize Cuba, a plan he quickly abandoned once it was made public.He emphatically supported the Compromise of 1850, vigorously enforced the Fugitive Slave Law, and threw his support behind the Kansas Nebraska Bill. | 3 | |
| 5628625287 | Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) | Military general and twelfth U.S. president, He emerged as a popular war hero after defeating Santa Anna's forces at Buena Vista in the war with Mexico. As president, He, a Louisiana slave owner, sought to avoid a sectional confrontation over slavery, though he opposed the Compromise of 1850. | 4 | |
| 5628625288 | Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1913) | Famed conductor on the Underground Railroad, She helped rescue more than three hundred slaves from bondage. Born into slavery, She fled to the North in 1849 but returned to the South nineteen times to guide fellow bondsman to freedom. After the Civil War, she worked to give freedmen access to education in North Carolina. | 5 |