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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | 0 | 22 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. | 10 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 | pennsylvania | 3 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 | 15th | 3 sets | |
| 10 | 15th president of the united states (1791-1868) | 3 sets | |
| 11 | 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 | |
| 12 | signed a bill passed by congress | 2 sets | |
| 13 | 15th president, dred scott decision, confederacy formed | 2 sets | |
| 14 | president pierce was succeeded by him. he was strongly under southern influence. | 2 sets | |
| 15 | 1857-1861, democrat, know-nothings party (fillmore), democrats (compromise of 1850 and kansas nebraska bill) | 2 sets | |
| 16 | who wins the election of 1856 | 2 sets | |
| 17 | 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 | 2 sets | |
| 18 | 15 president | 2 sets | |
| 19 | dred scott decision, bachelor president, south carolina secedes, confederacy forms. | 2 sets | |
| 20 | 1 | 2 sets | |
| 21 | 15th president (1857-1861) john c. breckinridge | 2 sets | |
| 22 | 15th president of the us, known as one of the worst presidents in us history. | 2 sets | |
| 23 | fifteenth | 2 sets | |
| 24 | 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. | 2 sets | |
| 25 | won the election of 1856 | 1 set | |
| 26 | 15th president and public servant | 1 set | |
| 27 | the democratic presidential candidate in the 1856 election, and won. | 1 set | |
| 28 | democrat, won election in 1856 as 15th president of the us; known for being a 'doughface' that believed that going to war over slavery should be illegal as well as secession | 1 set | |
| 29 | president elected in 1856, called the "do nothing" president, usually ranks last in presidential polls | 1 set | |
| 30 | democrats nomoinated to to run for the presidency in 1856 buchanan one election | 1 set | |
| 31 | democratic candidate for the election of 1856 | 1 set | |
| 32 | 15 57 61 | 1 set | |
| 33 | democratic presidential candidate that won against fillmore | 1 set | |
| 34 | built the first steel bridge in 1874 | 1 set | |
| 35 | a leading politician in the south and supported nullification, slavery, states rights, and limited government | 1 set | |
| 36 | american politician and 15th president of the united states, he was chosen as the democratic nominee in 1854. | 1 set | |
| 37 | president elected in 1856/ called the "do nothing" president/ usually ranked last in presidential poles | 1 set | |
| 38 | democratic candidate in 1856; narrow victory over fremont and fillmore; painfullly timid and indecisive; financial panic and depression followed inauguration | 1 set | |
| 39 | polk's secretary of state, winner of 1856 election | 1 set | |
| 40 | democrat nominee for president from pennsylvania | 1 set | |