During the 1850s, the United States grew more bitterly divided over the issue of slavery. A compromise on the issue passed by Congress, the Compromise of 1850 was supposed to offer a balanced approach...
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The administration of Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), fourteenth president of the United States, was marred by the bitter quarrel resulting from the passage of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act.Franklin Pierc...
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Pierce was born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, on November 23, 1804. Franklin Pierce went to Bowdoin College. After he graduated from Bowdoin, he studied law, and then entered politics. At the ...
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President Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce
