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Date Posted: 23:34:58 11/07/02 Thu
Author: BZellner
Subject: Ch 13 Buchanan and Depression

I. Buchanan and Depression
A. Election of 1856
1. Democratic Party wanted a candidate who was not associated with the “Bleeding Kansas.”
a. Choose James Buchanan of Pennsylvania
2. The republicans, 1st presidential contest, denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery but also endorsed a whiggish program
a. Nominated John C. Fremont
3. The knownothings nominated former president Millard Fillmore
4. Buchanan won narrow victory over Fremont and Fillmore
a. Because of votes in Pennsylvania and Illinois
b. Fremont got no votes in the south
B. At the time of his inauguration, Buchanan was the 2nd oldest president, at the age of 65
1. He was a painfully timid and indecisive president at a critical moment in history
a. The year Buchanan took office a financial panic struck the country
b. Followed by several years of depression
i. In the north the depression strengthen the republican party

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