Presidency Chart – Franklin Pierce (14th) (1853 - 1857)

Election of 1852

 

Major Items during Pierce’s Presidency

Gadsden Purchase (1853)

 

 

 

Perry opens Japan to world trade (1853)

 

 

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) and the arguments against it.

 

 

 

 

 

End of the Whig Party – Second Party System

 

 

 

Rise of the Know-Nothings

 

 

 

Creation of Republican Party

 

 

 

 

Bleeding Kansas

 

 

 

“The Crime Against Kansas” and the Caning of Senator Sumner

 

 

 

Ostend Manifesto

 

 

 

Filibustering

 

 

 

The African American World

Evangelical Black Protestantism

 

 

African American families and culture

 

 

Slave resistance

 

 

Free blacks