A Short History of the United States

76 a short history of the united states providing stories about people and locales that Americans could recog- nize and enjoy. J ...

An Emerging Identity 77 vation of cotton. With the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 , it became possible to gr ...

78 a short history of the united states “Work,” lectured one man, “and at eighteen you shall... live in plenty, be well clothed, ...

An Emerging Identity 79 and set about enacting them into law. Using the enormous powers he had earlier built into the office of ...

80 a short history of the united states in Florida regularly crossed the border into the United States, borders that white men h ...

Adam’s Onís Treaty with Spain ...

82 a short history of the united states for Spain to sell us this troublesome territory, he argued. The result was the Adams- On ...

An Emerging Identity 83 “Let it come,” roared Tallmadge in response. Despite the anger and threats of secession, the amendment p ...

84 a short history of the united states of South Carolina, “& has been Saved,” thanks to Henry Clay. With- out bloodshed or ...

An Emerging Identity 85 American states and did not want to see a return to the previous arrangement, which favored Spanish inte ...

86 a short history of the united states of any European power, we have not interfered, and shall not inter- fere.” Secretary Ada ...

An Emerging Identity 87 demanded free public education for their children; and they demanded that employers pay the wages that w ...

88 a short history of the united states the furtherance of a republican society. The found ers berated parties and described the ...

An Emerging Identity 89 by the House of Representatives in making its decision, and these in- cluded Jackson, Adams, and Crawfor ...

90 a short history of the united states supposedly irrefutable proof that the election had been rigged by two scheming, power-hu ...

An Emerging Identity 91 to kill each other. For some southerners, such as William Yancey of Alabama, “a duel was only a pleasant ...

92 a short history of the united states the high duty on iron, he explained, was “the Sine qua non with Penn- sylvania.” Thus ra ...

An Emerging Identity 93 rates were adjusted to increase the woolen rate to forty percent ad valo- rum with a five percent increa ...

94 a short history of the united states could have been initiated. Politics, as would happen again and again over the years, can ...

4 The Jacksonian Era T housands of people crowded into Washington on March 4 , 1829 , to witness the inauguration of President A ...