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- 7. The son of John Adams and one of the American delegates, summed up the Treaty of Ghent in one sentence : “ Nothing was adjusted , nothing was settled .
- 8. the practice of a successful political party givin public office to its supporters
- 10. one of the more than 80,000 people who joined the gold rush to California in 1849
- 11. federal government to promote big business
- 13. was a United States sectional political crisis in 1832-33,during the presidency of Andrew Jackson , which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government
- 15. was american politician who served as the 11th president of the United States. He previously was Speaker of the United states of the House of Representatives and Governor of Tennessee
- 16. was an American statesman and political theorist from from South Carolina and the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832
- 17. is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States , along with the Republican Party
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- 1. President during the Panic of 1837
- 2. Whig, Shortest term of President , 1 month he died from pneumonia
- 3. was an american leader in the Latter Day Saint movement , politician , and a settler in the Western United States . He was the second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from 1847 until his death
- 4. was an American lawyer,planter, and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives
- 5. The rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government
- 6. this artificial waterway would let western farmers ship their goods to the port of New York . It would also bring business to towns along the route . To many people , the ideas of such a canal seemed far fetched . When Thomas Jefferson heard of the plan , he exclaimed: Why , sir,you talk of making a canal 350 miles through the wilderness - it is little short of madness to think of it at this day
- 9. the right to vote
- 12. The law let the government give land west of the Mississippi to Native Americans in exchange for their lands to the east
- 14. was to run from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling , on the Ohio River in western Virginia
- 15. First vice president to take over because the president died