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251129289Worcester v. GeorgiaSupreme Court ruled that Georgia law could not be enforced in the Cherokee Nation0
251129290Webster-Ashburn TreatyEstablished boundary of Maine (between US and Britain); US gained more land (including iron Orrin MN), Britain gained Halifax/Quebec route1
251129291Specie CircularDecree that required all public lands to be purchased with "hard," or metallic, money2
251129292John SlidellSent to Mexico City to offer $25 million for California and territory to the east3
251129293"pet banks"Banks in which Jackson deposited federal money; these were his chief weapon in his struggle with the US bank4
251129294Robert HayneSC senator who sought to safeguard minority interests in the South in a debate with Webster5
251129295Sam Houston - commander-in-chiefFormer TN governor; tragic marriage, alcoholism, living with Indians, Texas6
251129296Zachary Taylor and Winfield ScottThe two American generals who led the main invasion forces in Mexico7
251129297Maysville Road BillVetoed by Jackson, would have provided funds for internal improvements; example of Jacksonian democracy8
251129298Maine Law of 1851First state law to ban the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages9
251129299Daniel Webster & Henry ClayTwo able and experienced leaders of the Whigs who had hoped to govern through a weak president 1841 - 184510
251129300Mary LyonRaised money to launch a "Female Seminary", now Mount Holyoke College11
251129301Elizabeth Cady StantonLeft "obey" out of her marriage ceremony; advocated women's suffrage12
251129302John James AudubonWrote Birds of America13
251129303Margaret FullerEdited a transcendentalist journal, The Dial14
251129304Dorthea DixOpposed prisons for confinement of the insane15
251129305Lucretia MottQuaker, woman delegates to London anti-slavery conference not recognized16
251129306Grimke sistersSisters who spoke at anti-slavery gatherings17
251129307James Fenimore CooperWrote of the rugged individual; hero - Natty Bumpo18
251129308Washington IrvingWrote Knickerbocker's History of New York19
251129309Edgar Allen PoeExcelled in the horror short story20
251129310Henry David ThoreauWrote Walden21
251129311Ralph Waldo EmersonSaid "Europe stretches to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond." Transcendentalist.22
251129312John C. Calhounas vice president under Jackson, he changed from a nationalist to a Southern sectionalist23
251129313James K. PolkFirst dark horse candidate to be nominated for the presidency24

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