Franklin Pierce Timeline

Franklin Pierce Presidency Timeline
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States who served in office from March 4, 1853 to March 4, 1857. What were the key events during his presidency? The Franklin Pierce Presidency Timeline provides a fast, but detailed, overview of the important issues and key events with a brief explanation of each of the important events and the dates on which they occurred.

Franklin Pierce Presidency Timeline
Franklin Pierce Timeline covers the history, important accomplishments and key issues of his presidency from March 4, 1853 to March 4, 1857 that included:

The Sioux and Apache Wars
The Gadsden Purchase acquiring territory in  Arizona and New Mexico
The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Ostend Manifesto

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Franklin Pierce Presidency Timeline
The following fact file format provides a fast overview of the Franklin Pierce Presidency with a History Timeline of the important events and accomplishments of his presidency. Franklin Pierce Presidency Timeline details the sequence of key historical events and accomplishments arranged in chronological order that had a significant impact on the history of the United States of America.

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Franklin Pierce Timeline: Presidential Timeline of Important Events

1853 - His inauguration as 14th President of the United States

1853 - The Apache Wars (1849 -1924) continued

1853 - The Walker War (1853–1854) with the Ute Indians erupts in Utah over slavery among the Native Indians. Wakara (Walker) leads the Utes in a series of raids on Mormon settlements

1853 - American inventor Elisha Otis established a company for manufacturing elevators

1853 - The Gadsden Purchase, negotiated by James Gadsden, is signed in which the United States acquires more than 30,000 sq. miles of new territory in southwest Arizona and New Mexico for $10 million.

1854 - February 13, 1854: Matthew Perry arrives in Japan

1854 - The Sioux Wars (1854 - 1890) break out in South Dakota, Minnesota and Wyoming. Their leaders included Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

1854 - February 28 1854: The Black Warrior Affair (involving an American Merchant ship in Havana, Cuba), inflamed diplomatic relationships between the United States and Spain

1854 - March 31, 1854: Commodore Matthew Perry negotiates the Treaty of Kanagawa that opens US trade with Japan

1854 - The Kansas- Nebraska Act in which newly formed territories could decide whether slavery would be allowed in their new state when they applied for statehood

1854 - Popular Sovereignty and Slavery was used a pre-Civil War political doctrine

1854 - 1854 -1861: Bleeding Kansas - A series of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery factions that took place in Kansas Territory

1854 - October 1854: The Ostend Manifesto a secret document proposing the annexation of Cuba from Spain by proslavery diplomats that led to huge controversy between the northern and southern states

1855 - Additional conflicts with Native American erupted with the Yakima War (1855–1858), the Puget Sound War (1855–1856) and the Third Seminole War (1855–1858)

1855 - Henry Bessemer invented a process to create steel from iron which produced steel cheaply and efficiently

1857 - His presidency and term in office ends. The next US President was James Buchanan

Franklin Pierce Timeline of important Events

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For detailed articles about the most important events during his presidency timeline refer to Franklin Pierce Accomplishments and Events

Franklin Pierce Presidency Timeline
The Franklin Pierce Presidency Timeline detailed above provides interesting facts and important information about the 14th President of the United States.

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