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| james buchanan definitions | |||
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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | 0 | 24 sets | |
| 2 | 1857-1861 | 14 sets | |
| 3 | the 15th president of the united states (1857-1861). he tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both north and south, and he was unable to forestall the secession of south carolina on december 20, 1860. | 12 sets | |
| 4 | 15th president | 10 sets | |
| 5 | 15th u.s. president. 1857-1861. democratic | 6 sets | |
| 6 | antebellum president who claimed that secession was illegal but going to war was also illegal, indecisive | 5 sets | |
| 7 | 15th president of the united states (1791-1868) | 4 sets | |
| 8 | nominated by democrats for having few enemies with kansas-nebraska debate. elected as the fifteenth president of the united states (1857–1861), ranked as one of the worst presidents, held that secession was illegal, but that going to war to stop it was also illegal. mixed views on slavery, but policy was consistent as a slavery sympathizer. biggest mistakes were supporting the lecompton constitution and creating financial panic. | 3 sets | |
| 9 | chosen by the demorcratic party as their candidate in the 1856 election because of his long career as a congressman and secratary of state and because he was not involved in the kansas-nebraska controversy | 3 sets | |
| 10 | 15th | 3 sets | |
| 11 | american politician and 15th president of the us. he was chosen as the democratic nominee for president in 1856 for being politically experienced and not offensive to slave states. | 3 sets | |
| 12 | pennsylvania | 3 sets | |
| 13 | fifteenth | 2 sets | |
| 14 | president pierce was succeeded by him. he was strongly under southern influence. | 2 sets | |
| 15 | a democrat, succeeded pierce as the president of the united states. he had a strong southern influence and approved of the lecompton constitution. divided the powerful democratic party by enraging the douglas democrats of the north. he divided the only remaining national party and with it, the union. | 2 sets | |
| 16 | 1 | 2 sets | |
| 17 | 15th president of the us, known as one of the worst presidents in us history. | 2 sets | |
| 18 | 1857-1861, democrat, know-nothings party (fillmore), democrats (compromise of 1850 and kansas nebraska bill) | 2 sets | |
| 19 | democratic nominee for election of 1856. won by majority of popular and electoral vote. accepted the lecompton constitution of kansas, which supported slavery. | 2 sets | |
| 20 | 15th president, dred scott decision, confederacy formed | 2 sets | |
| 21 | who wins the election of 1856 | 2 sets | |
| 22 | 15th president (1857-1861) john c. breckinridge | 2 sets | |
| 23 | signed a bill passed by congress | 2 sets | |
| 24 | 15 president | 2 sets | |
| 25 | dred scott decision, bachelor president, south carolina secedes, confederacy forms. | 2 sets | |
| 26 | democratic candidate for the election of 1856 | 1 set | |
| 27 | do-nothing president, elected in 1856, was a doughface | 1 set | |
| 28 | 15th 1857-1861 (dem.) | 1 set | |
| 29 | an experienced diplomat and former member of congress | 1 set | |
| 30 | won the election of 1856 | 1 set | |
| 31 | democrat presidential candidate for 1854 election. won the 1854 election. | 1 set | |
| 32 | democrat who won in 1856 | 1 set | |
| 33 | the candidate for democrats and won the election that had been an ambassador in russia and the great britain | 1 set | |
| 34 | 1857-1861; dred scott decision; lincoln-douglas debates | 1 set | |
| 35 | do-nothing president, elected in 1856, was a doughface (northerner with southern sympathies) | 1 set | |
| 36 | democrat from pennsylvania who won the election for president in 1856. | 1 set | |
| 37 | democratic candidate for president in 1856, from the north with southern principles | 1 set | |
| 38 | pennsylvania native teamed up john c. breckinridge of kentucky in 1856. proved ineffective in preventing the coming storm of the civil war. | 1 set | |
| 39 | 1857-1861, 15th president | 1 set | |
| 40 | a leading politician in the south and supported nullification, slavery, states rights, and limited government | 1 set | |