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The 1856 United States elections elected the members of the 35th United States Congress and the President to serve from 1857 until 1861. The elections took place during a major national debate over slavery, with the issue of "Bleeding Kansas" taking center stage.
The United States presidential election of 1856 was an unusually heated election campaign that led to the election of James Buchanan, the ambassador to the United Kingdom. Republican candidate John C. Frémont condemned the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and crusaded against the Slave Power and the expansion of slavery, while Democrat James Buchanan ...
James Buchanan: Campaigns and Elections. By William Cooper. The Campaign and Election of 1856: The Kansas-Nebraska Act had poisoned the careers of both men who had supported it—Franklin Pierce and Stephen Douglas: Douglas would be a serious contender for the Democratic nomination in 1856, with strong support from the South and the West, but ...
Learning Objectives. Discuss the Presidential election of 1856. The electoral contest in 1856 took place in a transformed political landscape. A third political party appeared: the anti-immigrant American Party, a formerly secretive organization with the nickname “the Know-Nothing Party” because its members denied knowing anything about it.
Party Nominees: Electoral Vote: Popular Vote Presidential: Vice Presidential Democratic: James Buchanan: John C. Breckinridge: 174: 58.8%: 1,836,072: 45.3%
The election of 1856 was one of the bitterest and most contentious elections in American history. The newly formed Republican Party and their candidate, frontiersman and explorer John Fremont, campaigned on the promise to end “Slave Power” and to repeal the Kansas-Nebraska Act, a law that allowed for the possibility of the rebirth of ...
With the 1856 Presidential election the nation gained an openly abolitionist-based political party, although the Republican Party did not call for an absolute abolition of slavery. Republicans opposed slavery’s expansion into the western territories.
