251129289 | Worcester v. Georgia | Supreme Court ruled that Georgia law could not be enforced in the Cherokee Nation | 0 | |
251129290 | Webster-Ashburn Treaty | Established boundary of Maine (between US and Britain); US gained more land (including iron Orrin MN), Britain gained Halifax/Quebec route | 1 | |
251129291 | Specie Circular | Decree that required all public lands to be purchased with "hard," or metallic, money | 2 | |
251129292 | John Slidell | Sent to Mexico City to offer $25 million for California and territory to the east | 3 | |
251129293 | "pet banks" | Banks in which Jackson deposited federal money; these were his chief weapon in his struggle with the US bank | 4 | |
251129294 | Robert Hayne | SC senator who sought to safeguard minority interests in the South in a debate with Webster | 5 | |
251129295 | Sam Houston - commander-in-chief | Former TN governor; tragic marriage, alcoholism, living with Indians, Texas | 6 | |
251129296 | Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott | The two American generals who led the main invasion forces in Mexico | 7 | |
251129297 | Maysville Road Bill | Vetoed by Jackson, would have provided funds for internal improvements; example of Jacksonian democracy | 8 | |
251129298 | Maine Law of 1851 | First state law to ban the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages | 9 | |
251129299 | Daniel Webster & Henry Clay | Two able and experienced leaders of the Whigs who had hoped to govern through a weak president 1841 - 1845 | 10 | |
251129300 | Mary Lyon | Raised money to launch a "Female Seminary", now Mount Holyoke College | 11 | |
251129301 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Left "obey" out of her marriage ceremony; advocated women's suffrage | 12 | |
251129302 | John James Audubon | Wrote Birds of America | 13 | |
251129303 | Margaret Fuller | Edited a transcendentalist journal, The Dial | 14 | |
251129304 | Dorthea Dix | Opposed prisons for confinement of the insane | 15 | |
251129305 | Lucretia Mott | Quaker, woman delegates to London anti-slavery conference not recognized | 16 | |
251129306 | Grimke sisters | Sisters who spoke at anti-slavery gatherings | 17 | |
251129307 | James Fenimore Cooper | Wrote of the rugged individual; hero - Natty Bumpo | 18 | |
251129308 | Washington Irving | Wrote Knickerbocker's History of New York | 19 | |
251129309 | Edgar Allen Poe | Excelled in the horror short story | 20 | |
251129310 | Henry David Thoreau | Wrote Walden | 21 | |
251129311 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Said "Europe stretches to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond." Transcendentalist. | 22 | |
251129312 | John C. Calhoun | as vice president under Jackson, he changed from a nationalist to a Southern sectionalist | 23 | |
251129313 | James K. Polk | First dark horse candidate to be nominated for the presidency | 24 |
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