President James Buchanan thought that a binding Supreme Court decision legitimizing slavery would bring the country together. Currier & Ives Lithography Company, after Mathew B. Brady/National ...

Buchanan presided over the dissolution of the Union. His faith that the legal system would resolve the slavery issue locked him into inaction. Most historians blame Buchanan for hastening the ...

James Buchanan is the only U.S. president from the ... which emphasized non-intervention on slavery in the territories.November 1856 | Buchanan was elected the 15th president.March 4, 1857 ...

When James Buchanan was elected to be the 15th president of the United States in 1856, America was riven by sectional tensions and a deepening antagonism over slavery — an antagonism that had ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - We look now to “Old Buck” - James ... to ban slavery in federal territories. This decision pleased Southerners and incensed Northerners. Buchanan unwisely ...

If Senator Stephen Arnold (“Little Giant”) Douglas and President James Buchanan had not quarreled over slavery in Kansas, a united Democracy would have nominated Douglas for President at ...

Buchanan came into office as the country was heading towards the Civil War, winning the 1856 election with a plurality of the popular vote. He tried to avoid dealing with the issue of slavery ...

As for slavery, Slaymaker says Buchanan thought ... “There is no such person running as James Buchanan. He is dead of lockjaw. Nothing remains but a platform and a bloated mass of political ...

Not widely beloved, a Northerner who was deeply sympathetic to the South and to slavery, Buchanan was ... smell in 1857 Washington. “When James Buchanan took the oath of office, there was ...

James Buchanan is our only bachelor president and ... In 1860, the Democrats split over slavery, thus ceding the election to Republican Abraham Lincoln. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina ...