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Weak democratic president whose pro-southern cabinet pushed aggressive expansionist schemes?
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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.
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