USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The biography for President Pierce and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. Franklin Pierce became 14th President of the United States at a time of apparent tranquility (1853-1857).

Detailed explanation-2: -The biography for President Van Buren and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States (1837-1841), after serving as the eighth Vice President and the tenth Secretary of State, both under President Andrew Jackson.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jackson laid the framework for democracy, paid off the national debt, gained new lands for America, strengthened relationships with foreign nations globally and issued a new currency.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jackson was the first president to sense the potency of large negative acts–acts against others. With a sure and unblushing sense of political advantage, he carried out all of them in the name of the “sovereign people.” If he was our first democratic president, he was also our first modern one.