1 gen 1852 anni - Election of 1852

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-demise of Whig party
-Whigs didn't have a strong stance against slavery expansion
-Democrats won -> Pierce (sympathetic to South)
-northern Democrats favored popular sovereignty and southern Democrats wanted slavery open in all territories
-Pierce pursued an expansionist foreign policy (trans-Pacific commercial empire)

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