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Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce's Presidency
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 Franklin Pierce(1853-1857)  Democrat  Vice President-William R. King  Major Domestic Affairs  Southern Senator Preston Brooks "canes" Northern Senator Charles Sumner as a defense of southern slavery  New England Emigrant Aid Company sends armed abolitionists into Kansas Territory to turn it to free-state status despite the Douglas Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854  Major Foreign Affairs  Secretary of State Macy negotiates the annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1854, then Commercial Reciprocity Treaty in 1855:  Senate rejects the annexation because it calls for immediate statehood rather than a period of territorial status first  Senate rejects the commerce pact over concerns from sugar- producers in Louisiana  Canadian Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 grants America much better fishing privileges than it had under the original convention of 1818  British fishing allowed 1000 miles south along America's eastern seaboard  Other products such as form goods should be admitted by Canada and the United States without any duties  Crimean War 1854-  British outraged by prevalent anti-British sentiment in the United States and sympathy for Tsarist Russia  British ambassador John Crampton dismissed(may 28, 1856) for surreptitiously enlisting American volunteers for fight against Tsarist Russia  Recognition of the William Walker government in Nicaragua

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Franklin Pierce

Course: US History (1491 ce)

97 Documents
Students shared 97 documents in this course

University: Jackson College

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Franklin Pierce(1853-1857)
Democrat
Vice President-William R. King
Major Domestic Affairs
Southern Senator Preston Brooks "canes" Northern Senator Charles
Sumner as a defense of southern slavery
New England Emigrant Aid Company sends armed abolitionists into
Kansas Territory to turn it to free-state status despite the Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Major Foreign Affairs
Secretary of State Macy negotiates the annexation of the Kingdom of
Hawaii in 1854, then Commercial Reciprocity Treaty in 1855:
Senate rejects the annexation because it calls for immediate
statehood rather than a period of territorial status first
Senate rejects the commerce pact over concerns from sugar-
producers in Louisiana
Canadian Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 grants America much better
fishing privileges than it had under the original convention of 1818
British fishing allowed 1000 miles south along America's
eastern seaboard
Other products such as form goods should be admitted by
Canada and the United States without any duties
Crimean War 1854-1856
British outraged by prevalent anti-British sentiment in the
United States and sympathy for Tsarist Russia
British ambassador John Crampton dismissed(may 28, 1856)
for surreptitiously enlisting American volunteers for fight
against Tsarist Russia
Recognition of the William Walker government in Nicaragua

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