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| 15605506760 | Andrew Jackson | The seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815). As president he opposed the Bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers. |  | 0 |
| 15605506761 | John C. Calhoun | The writer of The South Carolina Exposition, vice president under both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; he wrote Exposition and Protest and led the nullification fight in 1832 and 1833. As senator and vice president, he was the leading voice for southern states' rights from 1828 to 1850. |  | 1 |
| 15605506762 | Henry Clay | Influential Speaker of the House who greatly influenced the decision in the election of 1824 Man who composed the Compromise Tariff of 1830 |  | 2 |
| 15605506763 | John Quincy Adams | Secretary of State, He served as sixth president under Monroe. In 1819, he drew up the Treaty in which Spain gave the United States Florida in exchange for the United States dropping its claims to Texas. The Monroe Doctrine was mostly his work. |  | 3 |
| 15605506764 | Daniel Webster | Famous American politician and orator. he advocated renewal and opposed the financial policy of Jackson. Many of the principles of finance he spoke about were later incorporated in the Federal Reserve System. Would later push for a strong union. |  | 4 |
| 15605506765 | Nicholas Biddle | President of the Second Bank of the United States; he struggled to keep the bank functioning when President Jackson tried to destroy it. |  | 5 |
| 15605506766 | Stephen Austin | Man chosen to receive Texas, Original settler of Texas, granted land from Mexico on condition of no slaves, convert to Roman Catholic, and learn Spanish,, the state capitol of Texas was named after him; he was the man the brought the first Americans into Texas because he was granted permission by the Mexicans. Leader of Texas settlers in 1820 |  | 6 |
| 15605506767 | William Henry Harrison | was an American military leader, politician, the ninth President of the United States, and the first President to die in office. His death created a brief constitutional crisis, but ultimately resolved many questions about presidential succession left unanswered by the Constitution until passage of the 25th Amendment. Led US forces in the Battle of Tippecanoe. |  | 7 |
| 15605506768 | Sam Houston | Ex-governor of Tennessee, led the Texas Rebellion, United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863) |  | 8 |
| 15605506769 | Santa Anna | Mexican dictator during the Texas Rebellion, Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876) |  | 9 |
| 15605506770 | corrupt bargain | In the election of 1824, none of the candidates were able to secure a majority of the electoral vote, thereby putting the outcome in the hands of the House of Representatives, which elected John Quincy Adams over rival Andrew Jackson. Henry Clay was the Speaker of the House at the time, and he convinced Congress to elect Adams. Adams then made Clay his Secretary of State. |  | 10 |
| 15605506771 | Tariff of Abominations | 1828 - Also called Tariff of 1828, it raised the tariff on imported manufactured goods. The tariff protected the North but harmed the South; South said that the tariff was economically discriminatory and unconstitutional because it violated state's rights. |  | 11 |
| 15605506772 | Tariff of 1833 | Tariff proposed to settle the dispute between nullies and Jackson, It was a new tariff proposed by Henry Clay and John Calhoun that gradually lowered the tariff to the level of the tariff of 1816 This compromise avoided civil war and prolonged the union for another 30 years. |  | 12 |
| 15605506773 | panic of 1837 | Ecnomic downturn caused by loose lending practices of stat banks' and overspeculation. Martin Van Buren spent most of his time in office attempting to stablize and lessen the economic situation |  | 13 |
| 15605506774 | Force Bill | Bill that says Congress is authorized to use the military against belligerent states. Is nullified by South Carolina. |  | 14 |
| 15605506775 | Nullification Crisis of 1832 | When southern states (SC) attempted to nullify the Tariff Act of 1832, Andrew Jackson punishes them | 15 | |
| 15605506776 | san jacinto battle | The battle in which Santa Anna was forced to sign a treaty with Texas. | 16 | |
| 15605506777 | Cult of Domesticity | idealized view of women & home; women, self-less caregiver for children, refuge for husbands | 17 | |
| 15605506778 | Erie Canal | an artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo | 18 | |
| 15605506779 | Know-Nothing Party | anti-immigrant party formed in the 1850s | 19 | |
| 15605506780 | Market Revolution | economic changes where people buy and sell goods rather than make them themselves | 20 | |
| 15605506781 | Robert Fulton | Invented the steamboat | 21 | |
| 15605506782 | Elias Howe | invented the sewing machine | 22 | |
| 15605506783 | Cyrus McCormick | United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical harvester (1809-1884) | 23 | |
| 15605506784 | Samuel morse | Invented the telegraph | 24 | |
| 15605506785 | Samuel slater | Father of factory system | 25 |
