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Franklin Pierce.
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt & Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the US President when the Gadsden Purchase was made in 1853.
Nope. Not "franklin roosevelt" - Franklin Pierce.
Franklin pierce
The United States was not at war while Pierce was President. There was serious civil strife in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions and federal troops were eventually called in to restore order.
Franklin Pierce was the weak democratic president whose pro-southern cabinet pushed aggressive expansionist schemes. Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. This act turned Kansas into a battleground for the country's conflict over slavery.
No. You are confusing James Buchanan with Franklin Pierce, I think. Pierce was not a diplomat .
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Pierce believed in the Constitution. He disliked slavery but believed that the slave states had the right to practice it.
Pierce believed in the Constitutional right of a state to allow slavery but he was not pro-slavery. Therefore it seemed reasonable to let the people in a territory to decide if they wanted to allow slavery instead of the using the Missouri Compromise procedure to admitting states in pairs, one slave and one free. However, Nebraska was anti-slavery so unless Kansas voted to be a slave state, the balance would be upset and this is what caused all the trouble in Kansas.
Franklin Pierce's real name was Franklin Pierce.
The southerners supported Franklin because they trusted him in the issue of slavery. The northerners supported Franklin because he opened a railroad to the west coast , helping revive the slavery controversy.
Franklin Pierce's real name was Franklin Pierce.
Benjamin Pierce was Franklin Pierce's dad.
No- he did not advocate slavery, but he thought the institution was protected by the US Constitution and that states had the right to allow it if they chose to.