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- De Bow's Commercial reviewed founded
- Anti Masonic party holds their first convention
- Specie circular (payment for publics lands be made in gold or silver)
- William Henry dies and John Tyler becomes president
- Roger Brooke Taney becomes chief justice of the Supreme court
- NA expelled from south east (Trail of tears)
- England defeats the Spanish Armada
- Jackson removes all funds supporting the Bank of the US
- electors were chosen by popular vote in all states (except south carolina)
- Horseshoe Bend; defense of Baltimore, New Orleans
- At the time Jackson became President in 1828, the Bank of the United States was ably run by ____, a Philadelphian
- The foreign policy of the United States in 1823 made clear that European countries could not colonize in any of the Americas: North, Central, or South as well as islands of the Caribbean which were considered to be a part of the Americas. Where was this policy documented?
- What "civilized" Native Tribe took the United States to court and actually won the right to stay in Georgia when the Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. must respect their property rights?
- Which president made it his mission to rid the United States of the Native Populations because he had fought against them while in the U.S. army and he didn't consider them "Americans"?
- During the early 1800s, the Oregon Territory was jointly controlled by the United States and what other nation?
- What treaty in 1848 ended the Mexican American War and gave the United States the territory known as the Mexican Cession?
- Texas won its independence and became the Lone Star Republic. It had tried to become part of the United States, but President Van Buren and Congress ignored the petition. Why was Texas not admitted as a state when it first requested statehood?
- Where was gold found in California that started the Gold Rush of 1849?
- There is no question that the settlers' westward expansion was accompanied by fighting, and that the heavy losers were the Native Americans. However it was not fighting that decimated the Native American population during these times. Two things that accounted for a large number of indigenous people's deaths, were the brutal American policies and _____.
- President Polk offered cash to settle the disputed lands with Mexico, but Mexico refused. Who did President Polk send to the disputed lands that provoked the start of the Mexican American War?