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15 Cards in this Set
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Washington Irving
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Knickerbocker in New York
Wrote Rip Van Winkle Wrote Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Knickerbocker in New York
Wrote Leatherstocking tales Wrote Last of the Mohicans |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Transcendentalist
Advocated Self-reliance, self-improvement, optimism and freedom |
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Henry David Thoreau
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Transcendentalist
Wrote Walden: or Life in the Woods Wrote Civil Disobedience Poet and Non-conformist |
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Walt Whitman
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Poet
Wrote Leaves of Grass |
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Wrote Raven
Wrote Tell-Tale Hear Dark Romanticist |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Wrote The Scarlet Letter
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Herman Melville
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Wrote Moby Dick
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President John Tyler
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Took over Harrison died
Southerner States rights activist Vetoed creation of 3rd B.U.S. |
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Manifest Destiny
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God chose America to control Western Hemispher
TOM: Texas, Oregon, Mexican War |
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Maine Boundary Dispute
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British build road connecting Halifax and Quebec
Disputed territory in northern Maine |
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Aroostook War
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Canadian Lumberjacks enter Aroostook River Valley
Maine militia called in Threatened to make major conflict British Lord Ashburton negotiate with Sec. of State Daniel Webster |
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
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U.S.retained over half of disputed territory
Britain allowed to build Halifax-Quebec route |
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Election of 1844
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Expantionist Democrats supported "Young Hickory" aka James K. Polk
Slogan: 54-40 or fight Whig nominated Clay Attempted to straddle Texas issue, but cost him the election. Polk defeated Clay |
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Polk's Four Point Program
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Acquire California
Settle Oregon Dispute Restore Independent Treasury System Lower tariff from 32% to 25% (Walker Tariff) COIL (CA, OR, Independent Treasury, Lower Tariff) |
