A History of the American People
than ever before, though with the country prosperous again there was no wrathful rising of the people-and America was already sh ...
have been to him wisdom.' We shall probably never know whether there was a `corrupt bargain.' Most likely not. But most American ...
with their variety of objects and purposes, is infinitely distressing.' He had many such visitors' as a Mrs. Weedon, whosaid she ...
were Hickory parades, barbecues, and street-rallies. Kendall had the first campaign song, The Hunters of Kentucky,' written and ...
America, despite the fact that the Canal, triumphantly completed on November 2, 1825, helped Clinton to regain the governorship- ...
cobblers and gin cocktails, slings made with various spirits, juleps, snakeroot bitters, timber doodly, and eggnogs. Most politi ...
wench eating a jelly with a gold spoon in the president's house.' Clothes were torn; barrels of orange punch were knocked over; ...
An even more serious mistake was Jackson's sentimental decision to make his old comrade and crony Major John Eaton the War Secre ...
in New York or merely sitting on it. The Cabinet sat in speechless embarrassment as the clergyman droned on, often interrupted b ...
been designed to represent interests from all over the Union and its members were a cross- section of the ruling class, insofar ...
tariffs high. Congress had enacted its first protective high tariff in 1816, over Southern protests. In 1828 it put through an e ...
he brought forward an ingenious measure which progressively reduced the tariff to 20 percent by This was not as much as South C ...
pronunciation and one with grammatical accuracy. '147 During a Cabinet discussion of what Monroe called the absolute necessity' ...
Nation v. Georgia, the Marshall Court ruled that the tribe did not constitute a nation within the meaning of the US Constitution ...
hate Indians: they were simply an anomaly. He did, however, hate banks, and especially the Second Bank of the United States. Tha ...
credit, that access to be maintained by strict fiscal and financial probity. Jackson did not care a damn about that. Marshall ha ...
the golden Calf to memorialise me and Request a Restoration of the Deposits, I would cut my right hand from my body before I wou ...
convinced that the .... great state of New York, whose champions, Hamilton, Burr, De Witt Clinton, and Co., had all failed to ge ...
But Tyler was no pushover. He too was a tall man, with a high retreating forehead,' withall the features of the best Grecian mod ...
Thanks to him, Americans began to get short- and long-term weather forecasts, and projections based on historical averages, car ...
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