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John Quincy Adams
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Adams was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. was the sixth President of the United States
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Peaceable Coercion
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an agreement or negotiation between to opposing rivals.
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Status of the Slave Trade
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was shrinking
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Daniel Boone
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was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
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Battle of Horseshoe Bend
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was fought during the War of 1812 in central Alabama. On March 27, 1814, United States forces and Indian allies under General Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe inspired by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, effectively ending the Creek War.
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Albert Gallatin
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was a Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, diplomat, congressman, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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Treaty of Ghent
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was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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Timothy Pickering
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was a politician from Massachusetts who served in a variety of roles, most notably as the third United States Secretary of State,
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John Marshall
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was the Chief Justice of the United States (1801-1835) whose court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law while promoting nationalism
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Election of 1800
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sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800," Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated incumbent president John Adams. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule
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