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43 Cards in this Set
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Thomas Hart Benton
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Missouri senator, exansionist, wanted to stand up to Britain over terrirory issue
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Andrew Jackson
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ignored the Supreme Court's protection of the southeast Indian tribes
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Martin Van Buren
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New Yorker, president, architect of Independent Treasury Bill
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Wotcester v. Georgia
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Supreem Court ruled that Georgia law could not be forced in the Cherokee Nation
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John Q. Adams
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lost the 1828 election
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John Tyler
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first vice-president to become president when president died
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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established boundary of Maine (between Us and Britain); Us gained more land (including iron ore in MN), Britain gained Halifax/Quebec route
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William H. Harrison
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first president to die while in office
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Specie Circular
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Decree that required all public lands to be purchased with "hard" or metallic money
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John Slidell
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sent to Mexico City to offer $ 25 million for California and territory to the east
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"pet banks"
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banks which jackson deposited federal money, these were his chief weapon in his struggle with the US Bank
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Stephen F. Austin
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Granted land tract by Mexico to bring in settlers of the Roman Cathlic faith
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John C. Fremont
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helped overthrow Mexican rule in California
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Robert Hayne
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South Carolina senator who sought to safeguard minority intrests in the South in a debate with Webster
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Sam HOuston
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former Tennesse governor; tragic marriage, alcogolism, living with Indians, Texas commander-in-chief
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Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott |
the two American generals who led the main invasion forces in Mexico
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Maysville Road Bill
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vetoed by Jackson, would have provided funds for internal improvements
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Kit Carson
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guide who accompanied Fremont, showed Kearny the way from Santa Fe to CA
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James Beckwith
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born a slave(white father, mulatto mother),freed in 1810; mountain man in VA ;(Beckwourth)amoung the Crow indians in the West;member of Gan. Kearney's forces in CA
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rotation in office
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let as many people as possible hold office; cycle regular citizens in and out of government jobs
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James G. Birney
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Kentuky anti-slavery leader; persidential canidate of Liberty party in 1840, free soil (keep slavery out of territories) platform
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Maine Law of 1851
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first to ban the manufaturing and sale of alcoholic beverages
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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British born; first professional architect in US (classical revival style); completed the Capitol building in Washington,DC; cathedral in Baltimore
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Daniel Webster
Henry Clay |
two able and experiances leaders if the Whigs who had hoped to govern through a weak president 1814- 1845
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"tyranny of the majority"
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term used by de Tocqueville in Democracy in America which described why, although individuals have legal freedom in america democacy, there is great pressure for them to conform
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John Jacob Astro
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fur trader and real-estate speculator millionare
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Mary Lyon
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raised money to launch a "Female Seminary", now Mount Holyoke College
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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left "obey" out of her marriage ceremony; advocated women suffrage
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Hannah Forsham Lee
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woman author who wrote on living within one's income (Three Experiances in Living) in response to 1837 economic panic
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John James Audubon
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wrote Birds of America
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Margaret Fuller
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edited a trancendentalist journal, The Dial
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Dorthea Dix
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opposed prisons for confinement of the insane
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Lucretia Mott
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Quaker, women delagates to London anit-slavery conference not recognized
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Angelina Grimke
Sarah Grimke |
sisters who spoke at anti-slavery gatherings
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James Fenimore Cooper
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wrote of the rugged individual; hero- Natty Bumpo
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Charlotte Cushman
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most talented actress of the 1800
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Washington Irving
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wrote Knickerbocker's History of New York
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Edgar Allen Poe
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excelled in horror short story
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Henry David Thoreau
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wrote Walden
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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said "Europe streches to the Alleghenies, America lies beyond" Transcendentalist
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John C. Calhoun
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as vice-president under Jackson, had changed from a nationalist to a Southern sectionalist
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James K.Polk
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first dark horse canidate to be nominated for the presidentcy
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Peggey Eaton
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daughter of the Washington boardinghouse keeper who married Secretary of War under Jackson
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