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37 Cards in this Set

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