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37 Cards in this Set
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Nicholas Biddle
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Talented, but high-handed bank president who fought a bitter losing battle with President Jackson.
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Nat Turner
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Visionary African-American preacher whose bloody slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 tightened the reigns of slavery in the South.
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Zachary Taylor
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American military hero who was the commander during the Mexican-American War, invading northern Mexico from Texas. He was president from 1849 until 1850.
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James K. Polk
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Dark-horse Presidential winner of 1844 who effectively carried out ambitious expansionist plans, such as the Mexican Cession. He served from 1845 until 1849.
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John C. Calhoun
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Silver-tongued South Carolina Senator who defended nullification. He was once an ardent nationalist and Vice-President of the United States, but the became a spokesman for purely Southern interests.
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Henry Clay
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Kentucky congressman and Senator who ran for President before throwing vital support to John Quincy Adams and then becoming his Secretary of State.
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Winfield Scott
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Commander of the main American military campaign that finally captured Mexico City during the Mexican-American War.
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Davy Crockett
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Semi-illiterate, bear killing Tennessee congressman whose rough popular apeal exemplified the "New Democracy" of Andrew Jackson.
"King of the Wild Frontier" "You can all go to Hell; I'm going to Texas" |
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Denmark Vesey
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Free South Carolina African American whose 1822 rebellion raised southern concerns about slavery.
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Peggy Eaton
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Washington, DC figure whose supposedly scandalous social life caused a cabinet crisis and the resignation of a Vice President
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Tariff of Abominations
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Scornful southern term for the sky-high protectionist tariff measure supported by New Englanders.
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Daniel Webster
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Majestic New England statesman who defended "liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseperable."
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Kitchen Cabinet
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President Jackson's informal political advisers, who kept him well-informed of public opinion.
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John Quincy Adams
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Aloof New England statesman whose nationalism and elitism made him unpopular in the era of sectionalism and popular democracy. He was President from 1825 until 1829.
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Andrew Jackson
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Frontier aristocrat, military folk hero, hickory tough candidate and President from 1829 until 1837.
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Martin van Buren
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Jackson's "magician" Secretary of State who was known as the "Wizard of Albany." He was an economically-troubled President from 1837 until 1841.
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Congressional Caucus
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Older method by which a party's representatives in Congress nominated its presidential candidate.
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Sequoyah
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Cherokee leader who devised an alphabet for his people.
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Sam Houston
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Former Tennessee governor whose victory at San Jacinto won Texas its independence. He later served the roles of President, Governor, and Senator of Texas.
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Convention
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Newer, circus-like method of nominating presidential candidates that involved wider participation, but usually left effective control in the hands of party bosses.
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Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
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Mexican general whose large army failed to defeat the Texans.
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Corrupt Bargain
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Contemptuous Jacksonian term for the alleged political deal by which Henry Clay threw his support to John Q. Adams in exchange for becoming Secretary of state.
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Stephen F. Austin
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He led the first successful colonization of Spanish Texas by Americans after his father failed. He is known as the "Father of Texas."
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Moses Austin
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He was the original leader of American settlers to obtain a land grant for settlement in Spanish Texas.
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Trail of Tears
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The sorrowful path along which thousands of southeastern Native Americans journeyed to the Willamette Valley in the 1840's.
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Force Bill
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Legislation that authorized the President to use the army and the navy to collect tariffs. It was called the "Bloody Bill" by nullifiers.
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The South Carolina Exposition and Protest
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Pamphlet secretly written by John C. Calhoun that bluntly called on the states to nullify the federal tariff law.
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Free Masons
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Ritualistic secret societies that became the target of a momentarily powerful third party in 1832.
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Tallmadge Amendment
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A proposal by Rep. James Tallmadge of New York to restrict slavery that aroused Southern anger and set the stage for the Missouri Compromise.
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Panic of 1837
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Severe economic crisis that caused low prices, factory closings, and unemployment.
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Specie Circular
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Jackson's Treasury Department decree that required all public lands to be purchased with "hard" money
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Aroostook War
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A battle between American and Canadian lumberjacks over the northern Maine boundary.
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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Treaty ending Mexican-American War and granting vast territories to the United States.
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Manifest Destiny
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God destined the United States to rule the North American continent from coast-to-coast.
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Nueces River
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River that Mexico claimed as the Texas-Mexico boundary during the Mexican-American War.
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Rio Grande
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River that the United States claimed as the Texas-Mexico boundary during the Mexican-American War.
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Wilmot Proviso
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Controversial amendment, which passed the House of Representatives but not the Senate, stipulating that slavery should be forbidden in territory acquired from Mexico.
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