SAT2美国历史知识点：第14和15任美国总统.

　　下面为大家整理的是关于第14和15任美国总统的SAT2美国历史知识点，非常详细，大家在复习SAT2美国历史时可以进行参考。

　　Frank Pierce (1852-1856) (Democrat)

　　Clayton-Bulwer Treaty: with Britain to ban either’s exclusive control over isthmian waterway

　　Ostend Manifesto: ask Spain to give aid to Cuba, or US will take it (proposed by Southerners)

　　Opium War

　　 Treaty of Wanghia: with China for rights and privileges

　　 Treaty of Kanagawa: with Japan for coaling rights and consular relations

　　Gadsden Purchase: little piece under New Mexico to build Southern Pacific Railroad

　　Kansas-Nebraska Act: popular sovereignty for them, proposed by Stephen A. Douglas; resulted in bleeding Kansas later

　　 --Lead to the rise of Republican Party, containing all the Act’s enemies

　　James Buchanan (1856-1860) (Democrat)

　　“Bleeding Kansas”:

　　 New England Emigrant Aid Company: paying & sending antislavery people to Kansas

　　Lecompton Constitution: the one beside slavery constitution that permits already-in slavery

　　Pottawatomie Massacre: by John Brown that killed many slavery promoters

　　 Harpers Ferry: years later Brown raided a weapon stock to free southern blacks

　　Sumner beaten by Brooks in Senate

　　Dred Scott v. Stanford: slaves, as properties, won’t be freed even after taken to free land

　　Lincoln-Douglas debates

　　 Freeport Doctrine: the one Douglas gives that popular approval is the determinant on slavery

　　Anti-slavery books: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Stowe; The Impending Crisis of the South, by Hinton Helper; Douglass’s autobiography

　　Panic of 1857

　　Tariff of 1857: reduced tariff

　　1860 election: Republican-Lincoln; Northern Democrats-Douglas; Southern Democrats-Breckinridge; Constitutional Union (a small middle-road)-Bell

　　 --Douglas disliked by southerners with his support Lecompton and Freeport

　　以上就是SAT2美国历史知识点中关于第14和15任美国总统的介绍。这一段的历史对美国现在的生活方式的形成有重要的影响，大家可以根据这些知识点进行自己的备考。