Even before the Louisiana Purchase‚ President Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the west‚ and to track water routes to help western expansion. The route that Lewis and Clark traveled west became an important route for pioneers‚ known as the Oregon Trail. Pioneers went west for many reasons‚ including economic opportunities and new ways of life. An abundance of land for farming and grazing‚ mining‚ forestry and for some‚ like the Mormons‚ an escape from religious persecution
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Thomas Jefferson was a member of the Democratic-Republican party and took office on March 4‚ 1801 as the third President of the United States. While holding the title of President from 1801 to 1809‚ Jefferson made many major accomplishments. For example‚ he reduced internal taxes and plans were made to extinguish the public debt. Also‚ Jefferson allowed the Alien and Sedition Acts to end without renewal and had the excise tax on liquor that caused the Whiskey Rebellion repealed. This reduced government
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Isadora tries to change Calhoun‚ who is trying to get away from debtors‚ by paying off his debts to Papa Zeringue‚ a gangster-like tough guy who controlled most of the city. In exchange for the debts paid‚ Calhoun is forced to marry Isadora. Calhoun‚ who was extremely scared of Papa‚ left his debtors and Isadora‚ not wanting to change his bad habits‚ and boards The Republic and sets for Africa. Little did he know the horrors he would encounter on that ship? Calhoun meets a very drunk Josiah
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collectively‚ as paintings‚ sculptures‚ or drawings. (Dictionary.com‚ 2010) This definition is two of twenty-two definitions defined on the online dictionary. The two definitions were selected because it related to the subject at-hand. Merriam-Webster online defines art as the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects; also as works so produced. Artists use paintings as a form of communication; whether the painting is elaborate or just a mere
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The generalization that‚ "The decision of the Jackson administration to remove the Cherokee Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s was more a reformulation of the national policy that had been in effect since the 1790s than a change in that policy‚" is valid. Every since the American people arrived at the New World they have continually driven the Native Americans out of their native lands. Many people wanted to contribute to this removal of the Cherokees and their society. Knox
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In Calhoun’s response to anti-slavery sentiments expressed to the senate‚ Calhoun makes the argument that abolition is something that must be swiftly dealt with in order to preserve the union. Calhoun constructs a carefully worded argument which‚ while morally wrong today‚ is extremely persuasive. He arranges his argument so that the issue of slavery is not seen as a nefarious institution but rather a keystone on which every great civilization‚ including America‚ was built. Over the course of his
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Henry Clay and Daniel Webster wanted to control the government‚ and they planned to basically take over during Harrison’s term. Although they had a good plan‚ one thing failed. Harrison died 4 weeks into the job and John Tyler was now in office. Harrison was devoted to the Whig party and many of the things that the Whig party said they were going to do were shut down by Tyler. For example‚ the Whig’s had a plan to establish a new bank‚ called the Fiscal Bank but it was vetoed by the Democrat president
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Columbia Convention. The delegates of the convention called for the tariff to be void within South Carolina. The convention threatened to take South Carolina out of the Union if the government attempted to collect the customs duties by force. • Henry Clay introduced the Tariff of 1833. It called for the gradual reduction of the Tariff of 1832 by about 10% over 8 years. By 1842‚ the rates would be back at the level of 1816. • The compromise Tariff of 1833 ended the dispute over the Tariff of 1832
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leader of this party. He relied on himself to make a career‚ which made him popular with the ordinary people. Jackson was the representation for the “common man”. He believed that the common people’s rights were over looked by the plans of Adams and Clay. This party believed in states’ rights and the idea that the federal government should only have the necessary powers to keep the nation functioning. They wanted a small national government and the state government to have as much power as possible
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When Andrew Jackson was denied presidency in 1824 due to “the corrupt bargain” between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay‚ he was furious at the lack of democracy in the election system. He became determined to institute a new age of genuine democracy in America where the voice of the people wouldim being monarchal‚ Andrew Jackson was a very democratic president evidenced by his drive to give the people more representation and also his attempted transfer of power from the few to the many.
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