James Buchanan in a different time probably would have better served his country. But because of the approaching war and conflicts between the North and South, he is often criticized for not doing more to prevent a Civil War. A respectable man, Buchanan was a strict constitutionalist who believed that the Constitution protected slavery and the laws must be obeyed. .
The main issue that Buchanan had to deal with throughout his presidency was slavery. Authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Hinton R. Helper published books that awakened New England abolitionists. The Lincoln-Douglas debates showed the ethical prejudice of slavery and were some of the first "shots" fired in the Civil War. Chief Justice Taney's ruling in the Dred Scott case inflamed southerners. And the formation of the Confederate States of America capped what could have been a more productive presidency had Buchanan served in a different era. .
Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin made New England aware of the "wickedness of slavery by laying bare its terrible inhumanity, especially the cruel splitting of families." This novel upset Southerners because of its unfair indictments. Also inflaming the South was the fact that Stowe had never seen slavery first hand. Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South was banned in the South and widely accepted by the North. .
The seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas provided an important document known as the Freeport Doctrine. The Freeport Doctrine said that if the people voted slavery down it would stay down. .
The Dred Scott ruling further split the United States in two. At first the Southerners were happy with the ruling, which declared that slaves were not citizens and could not sue for their freedom. But once the North, most notably the Republican's, began to view the ruling as a mere opinion rather than a decision, the South began to wonder how much longer they would stay attached to a group who would not honor the Supreme Court.
- In my opinion, James Buchanan wasn't a very good president. President Buchanan didn't do much for the country, if anything. ... - James Buchanan was an excellent lawyer. ... - The story of President James Buchanan is very interesting. ... I think anyone interested in history would have a good time researching James Buchanan. ...
Scott Fitzgerald, and Henry James brought a realist revolution upon American literature. ... One main character, in which we see the vanity of wealth manifest itself, is Daisy Buchanan. ... She met Tom Buchanan, who is a wealthy acquaintance of hers. ... Daisy Buchanan finds her life to be boring, despite wealth and hectic social schedule. ... Gatsby was born under the name of James Gatz, to subsistence farmers in North Dakota. ...
By 1860 the feud between President James Buchanan and Stephen Douglas had cancelled out the political aspirations of both men. ... James Buchanan, a now lame duck president, took no action against the South which only straighten the confidence of the already seceding states allowing them to set up a government and establish a military. Buchanan, a southern sympathizer, wanted to stay at arms length and do the minimum towards the treasonous South. ... Maybe Buchanan knew there may have been more he could have done in his remaining days or at least before his constitutional lame-duck status took...
In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Tom Buchanan are all symbols of people in the lost generation in America during the early 1920's. ... Originally, Jay Gatsby was born James Gatz, a soldier during World War I. ... A middle class woman who spent her time sneaking around with the notorious polo player, Tom Buchanan. ... Tom Buchanan was a well respected, violent, racist, and rich businessman who was accepted into society. ... In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson, and Tom Buchanan, were the major contributing elements to belonging to the generation that changed s...
On the other hand, Gatsby and Buchanan's temper are very opposite. ... Daisy Buchanan, but in addition, they treat her as an object. ... Tom, for having a wife who was raised properly with old money, and Gatsby, who thinks of her exactly as she was five years ago- the beautiful, young woman from Louisville, Kentucky, who fell in love with James Gatz. " 'Oh, you want too much!' ... Similarly, Buchanan and Gatsby both use people to get what they want. ... Daisy Buchanan chooses Tom Buchanan in the end, for factors that Gatsby will never come to understand. ...
The main characters of this novel are Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker. ... James Gatz is another protagonist of the novel known for Jay Gatsby. ... Gatsby is a rich guy but he is not in the upper class where else Tom Buchanan is. ... Tom Buchanan is very wealthy guy who lives in East Egg. ... He goes to see his cousin, Daisy Buchanan in East Egg. ...
A number of prominent southerners as well as common southerners stepped up to reaffirm that indeed the Constitution was a compact especially when it came to the issue of slavery, whose names include above all else James Buchanan and the eventual president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis. ... Buchanan affirmed Lincoln's assessment of the Southern position when, in 1860, he sneakily justified the Southerners case by stating that if the principles of the Constitution have been breached, then the "injured States" will have the right of revolution towards the gover...
Scott Fitzgerald, a man named James Gatz (aka Jay Gatsby) is revealed as one with a strong past of pursuing his dream. ... Daisy could last so long awaiting Gatsby's arrival, and in this time she met Tom Buchanan whom she fell in love with and married while Gatsby was away. ... But after an intense confrontation the Buchanan man himself, Gatsby was left without Daisy's company, and only with the pieces of a shattered dream. ... That is the summary of James Gatz's life, a man's dream quashed by events he could only control indirectly. ...
One possible theme of the Great Gatsby is falseness. Many of the key characters were false in some way or another and wore "false faces". The falseness of each character and how they interacted and intertwined with each other was definently a directing force of the novel. First of all the nar...
