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Franklin Pierce was born in new hampshire
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Franklin Pierce gets married to Jane Means Appleton
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Pierce fights and gets wounded in the mexican war
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Family tradgety
A train wreck kills pierces 11 year old son -
Franklin Pierce's inaugural address
My Countrymen: IT a relief to feel that no heart but my own can know the personal regret and bitter sorrow over which I have been borne to a position so suitable for others rather than desirable for myself. -
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Fraklin Pierce's presidency
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Gadsen Purchase
Peirce purchased 45,535 acres from Santa Anna for $15,000,000 -
The Kansas-Nebraska act
This act alowed the area of kansas and nebraska to decide if they wanted allow or prohibit slavery. -
Treaty of Kanagawa
Treaty allows us ships to ener japan for trade. -
Canadian Reciprocity Treaty
Opens trade up To Canada for timber agricultule goods Ect. -
The Ostend Manifesto
This described the terms that the U.S. would purchase cuba from spain and if spain would refuse the U.S. would declare war. -
Nationality laws are changed
All people born in the U.S. become U.S. citizens -
The Sumner-Brooks Affair occurs
The Sumner-Brooks Affair occurs, in which cane-wielding Representative Preston Brooks attacks abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor. The fight is provoked by conversation and derogatory remarks made two days earlier during the Senate debate on the admission of Kansas. Following the beating, Brooks is arrested and fined $500; he subsequently resigns. Sumner suffers severe injuries, taking three years to recover from the beating. -
Jane Pierce dies
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Franklin peirce dies
He dies in Concord, New Hampshire from cirrhosis of the liver, from being an alcoholic most of his life.
