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political party founded to fight slavery and its spread to the West

• Republican Party

• Democratic Party

Democratic candidate and winner of the 1856 presidential election

• James Buchanan

• Abraham Lincoln

Republican candidate for the 1856 presidential election; against spread of slavery

• James Buchanan

• John C. Fremont

slave who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom in 1846

• Dred Scot

• Roger Taney

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scott decision

• Roger B. Taney

• James Buchanan

early leader of the Republican Party

• Abraham Lincoln

• James Buchanan

debates between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas

• Lincoln-Douglas debates

• Freeport debates

Stephen Douglas's belief that popular sovereignty made the decisions of citizens more important than decisions made by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case

• Freeport Doctrine

• Bleeding Kansas

Chief Justice _ wrote that African Americans were not citizens, and only citizens could sue in federal court.

• Roger B. Taney

• John C. Fremont

Which amendment stated that "no one can lose property without due process of law"?

• Fifth Amendment

• Sixth Amendment

• Seventh Amendment