P.O.T.U.S.

        14.  Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857

    Democrat
    VP - King
    Major Items:

• Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1854
• "Young America"
• popular sovereignty
• Japan opened to world trade, 1853
• Underground Railroad
• Bleeding Kansas
• Ostend Manifesto, 1854
• Dred Scott v. Sanford 1857

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