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    APUSH ch 13 notes

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    5. Van Buren‚ squired into office by the close popular vote but by the comfortable margin of 170 to 124 votes (for all the Whigs combined) in the Electoral College N. Big Woes for the “Little Magician” 1. Martin Van Buren‚ eighth president‚ was the first to be born under the American flag 2. An accomplished strategist and spoils man—the “wizard of Albany”—he was also a statesman of wide experience in both legislative and administrative life 3. From the outset the new president labored under sever

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    Chapter 13 Essay Questions 1. The presidential campaign for Andrew Jackson had started early—on February 9‚ 1825‚ the day of John Quincy Adams’s controversial election by the House—and it continued noisily for nearly four years. Even before the election of 1828‚ the temporarily united Republicans of the Era of Good Feelings had split into two camps. One was the National Republicans‚ with Adams as their standard-bearer. The other was the Democratic-Republicans‚ with the fiery Jackson heading their

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    ") The bank voted to issue a bill in which the bank could recharter‚ but Jackson stood with his belief and vetoed the bill. After his first term in office‚ he ran for re-election in 1833‚ and won another landslide victory‚ but this time he had Martin Van Buren as his vice president. With his next term in place‚ he continued that in which he had started‚ and had his treasury secretary move all of the government deposits out of national banks into smaller banks. The CEO of the bank in his prior term

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    La Amistad

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    LA Amistad is a movie depicting the tale of many Africans who were taken from their homes and sold into slavery. The Africans of “La Amistad” had been among five or six hundred Africans purchased by a Portuguese slave from Pedro Blanco‚ who operated a notorious slave factory on the island of Lomboko‚ south of Freetown. They had been brought from Africa on board the Portuguese slaver “Tecora” to Havana‚ where they were moved under cover of darkness to a prison outside the city and advertised for

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    Hist 2

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    friend) Jackson host a party in the White House(affair)‚ his niece did the party manager. Eaten and Peggy are missing (Jackson fired his niece) The party is a test for Jackson. Martin Van Buren talk to Jackson‚ Peggy 被污蔑 A professional politician‚ Martin Van Buren Jackson used this affair to select his new VP Van Buren Kentucky Bourbon....Whiskey ...spirit (Jackson’s age‚‚‚‚"Age of the Common Man"According to theHebrew Bible‚ Bathsheba (Hebrew: בת שבע‎‚ Bat Sheva‚ "daughter of the oath") (Arabic: بثشبع‎

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    DBQ The 1800’s were an era of vast political campaigns. People including John Adams‚ Andrew Jackson‚ Martin Van Buren‚ William Harrison‚ and John Tyler were all important Presidents during the Second Part System period. People became more implicated and the elections became more aggressive. Participation in political campaigns and elections in the U.S. evolved between 1815 and 1840 from events that pushed America toward a Democratic nation. When people first began campaigning‚ they used more

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    AP US History Quiz Ch10

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    CHOICE. MULTIPLE Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) By the 1830s‚ which of the following groups was NOT denied suffrage? 1) __D____ A) women B) blacks C) indentured servants D) white males E) Native Americans 2) In the 1820s‚ a two-party system was fostered by 2) _E_____ A) an increasing concern about foreign policy issues. B) the burgeoning population of the trans-Appalachian West. C) changes in the Constitution regarding the party

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    Presidents 1796 1840

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    Everyone knows the names of several of our nation’s first presidents.  However‚ a  significantly lesser amount of those people could tell you what their political party affiliations  were and their main political concept or idea that they promoted.  John Adams‚ James Monroe‚  Martin Van Buren‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ John Quincy Adams‚ William Henry Harrison‚ James  Madison‚ and Andrew Jackson were all elected to be President of the United States of America  between 1796 and 1840.  Those men all were a bit different in their political views and the main 

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    Chapter 7 Notes

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    Chapter 7 People 1. Tecumseh Tecumseh was a Shawnee chief known to be a great warrior. He traveled from Wisconsin to Florida persuading all sorts of tribes to join against the whites. Tecumseh’s brother‚ Tenskwatawa (the Prophet)‚ said that the Indians had to revolt against the whites to reinvigorate their own culture. After General Harrison defeated the Indians‚ the people lost their belief in the Prophet and Tecumseh. 2. Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was the 7th president of the United States

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    the Supreme Court while defending the Africans of the Amistad‚ and President Martin Van Buren’s attitude towards slavery and the abolitionists.

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