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John Brown led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in retaliation for the pro-slavery killings in Kansas.

Answer: E
 John Brown caned Charles Sumner, an anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts, in 1856.

Answer: C
 Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederate States of America in 1861.

Answer: D
 Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, died in July 1850.

Answer: F
 Stephen A. Douglas, known as the "Little Giant," succeeded in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed by breaking it into separate proposals.

Answer: G
 Senator John C. Calhoun argued that Congress needed to protect the right of slave owners to take their "property" into the territories.

Answer: H
 Roger B. Taney was the chief justice for the Dred Scott case, which ruled that slaves were property and had no rights.

Answer: I
 Martin Van Buren was the 1848 Free-Soil presidential candidate, representing the third party that opposed the expansion of slavery.

Answer: J
 Millard Fillmore was the president who supported the Compromise of 1850 and signed it into law.

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