Match Each Description with the Item Below

Match each description with the item below.
-James Buchanan

A) was a presidential candidate for the Constitutional Union party in the 1860 election and ran on a highly vague platform
B) was one of the most experienced presidents but had limited ability, facing events such as the Dred Scott decision early on that resulted in his undoing
C) was Franklin Pierce's friend and secretary of war who was later elected president of the Confederacy
D) was a reluctant Whig presidential candidate in 1848 who had previously had no party affiliation
E) was a South Carolina congressman who openly campaigned for a pro-slavery Kansas and caned Charles Sumner
F) was the "Little Giant" who succeeded in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed and saw it as a way to stop the slavery debate
G) argued that Congress needed to protect the right of slave owners to take their property into the territories
H) was the chief justice for Dred Scott case who was from Maryland and supported the South
I) was the 1848 Free-Soil presidential candidate, which was unique because he had already been president as part of a different party
J) was the president who supported the Compromise of 1850 and who had inherited the office rather than running for it

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