Examples of James Buchanan in the following topics:
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- The Democrats, on the other hand, supported
James Buchanan.
- Buchanan embraced the relatively
moderate popular sovereignty approach to the expansion of slavery in his
election platform and warned that the Republican Party was a coalition
of radical antislavery extremists that would force the country into Civil War.
- Buchanan won the
election of 1856 with the full support of the South as well as five free
states.
- Although Buchanan won the election and Frémont received fewer than 600
votes in all slave states, the results in the Electoral College indicated that
the Republican Party could succeed in the next election if they won just two
more states.
- Buchanan had won 45.3 percent of the popular vote and 174 electoral votes
whereas Frémont had won 33.1 percent of the popular vote and 114 electoral votes.
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- Minister to Great Britain James Buchanan and U.S.
- A political cartoon depicts James Buchanan surrounded by hoodlums using quotations from the Ostend Manifesto to justify robbing him.
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- The
Supreme Court ruling was handed down on March 6, 1857, just two days after
James Buchanan's inauguration.
- In the North, it fueled
claims of a "slave power" conspiracy with President Buchanan, a
Democrat, and the Supreme Court, controlled by a Democratic majority, working
to benefit the interests of Southern slaveowners.
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- The Democrats later got the presidency back in 1844 with James K.
- The fragmented opposition could not stop the election of Democrats Franklin Pierce in 1852 and James Buchanan in 1856.
- Led by Stephen Douglas, James K.
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- An 1854 cartoon depicts a giant Free-Soiler being held down by James Buchanan and Lewis Cass, who stand on the Democratic platform marked "Kansas," "Cuba," and "Central America" (referring to accusations that Southerners wanted to annex areas in Latin America to expand slavery).
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- Because the garrison's supplies were limited, President James Buchanan
authorized a relief expedition for supplies, small arms, and 200 soldiers.
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- However, it was vetoed by President James Buchanan.
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- Democratic-nominated James Buchanan won the election and Frémont received
fewer than 600 votes in all slave states.
- The Lecompton Constitution guaranteed the protection of slavery in the
region and received the support of President Buchanan and the Southern
Democrats.
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- After the 1860 election, President Buchanan did little to prevent secession or prepare the United States for the possibility of war.
- In the aftermath of the Presidential election of 1860, President Buchanan did little to halt this secessionist tide in the Deep South.
- Buchanan's address only attracted sharp, bitter criticism from the North (for Buchanan's claim that the crisis was a direct result of Northern interference) and the South (for Buchanan refuting its right to secede), rather than taking any effective action to prevent the conflict from escalating.
- Buchanan and his administration took no action to stop this confiscation of government property.
- However, by that time, Buchanan's relations with Congress were so strained that his requests were rejected out of hand.
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- At the 1992 Republican National Convention, conservative pundit Patrick Buchanan gave a landmark speech that is now often referred to as his "culture war speech. " In it, he defined the battle lines between the two sides in the culture war, which he claimed was being fought by Republicans and Democrats.
- The expression was introduced again by the 1991 publication of Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by James Davison Hunter, a sociologist at the University of Virginia.