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Davy Crockett... |
Skillful bear hunter/gunman...Congress member/semi-illiterate...Killed @ the Alamo. |
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Henry Clay... |
Created AmSys: strongBUS,^tariff,rds/cnals/trains...Speaker of HofR-> corrupt bargain w/ JQA...Sec of St...1832Tariff: lowered %...Began Whig party (anti-Jackson). |
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John Quincy Adams... |
6th Pres...nationalistic, old-fashioned ideals, stubborn...national University for wealthy male whites... national Observatory. |
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Andrew Jackson... |
7th Pres..."People's President" / "Old Hickory"...though gov't should be run by people...wife Rachel chastised. |
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Charles Dickinson... |
Newspaper reporter-> wrote story on Rachel..(still married to ex) |
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John C. Calhoun... |
VP for JQA & AJ...Leader of SC...wrote SC Expositions. |
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Nicholas Biddle... |
Owner of a BUS branch...parttook in "Bank War" w/ AJ. |
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Sequoyah... |
Indian...Appealed to SCCJ, JM->"Cherokees are their own nat'n w/in GA"...wrote Cherokee ABCs..."Cherokee Phoenix" newspaper...wrote Cher. Nat'n Constitution. |
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Martin Van Buren... |
8th Pres...Blamed for Panic of 1837 (not responsible)...Proposed Divorce Bill: US gov't removing its $ from BUS. |
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Daniel Webster... |
Webster-Hayne Debate-> Must keep Union together...Inspirational speech...Memorized by boys in the N. |
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Robert Hayne... |
Webster-Hayne Debate-> Cut-up US policies.Didn't want Union broken up... |
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