Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853-1857. He was a Democrat and was inaugurated at the age of 48, which was considered young for a president. Pierce was nominated by his party in 1852, chosen primarily due to his neutral stance on slavery. Yet he reintroduced the issue of slavery by supporting the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed new states to decide whether slavery would be legal or not. The act was strongly objected to by the Northern states and resulted in small conflicts between groups for and against slavery in Kansas, which were collectively known as Bleeding Kansas. Pierce was unable to mitigate conflict between North and South, contributing to the outbreak of the Civil War between 1861 and 1865.
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