...Martin Van Buren was born on Dec. 5, 1782, in Kinderhook, N.Y. After graduating from the village school, he became a law clerk, entered practice in 1803, and soon became active in state politics as state senator and attorney general. In 1820, he was elected to the United States Senate. He threw the support of his efficient political organization, known as the Albany Regency, to William H. Crawford in 1824 and to Jackson in 1828. After leading the opposition to Adam's administration in the Senate, he served briefly as governor of New York (1828-1829) and resigned to become Jackson's secretary of state. He was soon on close personal terms with Jackson and played an important part in the Jacksonian program (whitehouse.gov). In 1832, Van Buren became vice president; in 1836, president. The Panic of 1837 overshadowed his term. He attributed it to the overexpansion of the credit and favored the establishment of an independent treasury as repository for the federal funds. In 1840, he established a 10-hour day on public works. Defeated by Harrison in 1840, he was the leading contender for the Democratic nomination in 1844 until he publicly opposed immediate annexation of Texas, and was subsequently beaten by the Southern delegations at the Baltimore convention. This incident increased his growing misgivings about the slave power (Niven). After working behind the scenes among the anti-slavery Democrats, Van Buren joined in the movement that led to the Free-Soil Party and became its...
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...Martin Van Buren was born in 1782, and was of Dutch descent to a tavernkeeper and farmer in Kinderhook, New York. He was a “native Dutch speaker, and was America's first ethnic president as well as the first New Yorker to hold the office” (Widmer, Edward L. (2005) Martin Van Buren. New York, New York: Times). He discovered politics while growing up in his family's tavern which was frequently visited by politicians traveling between New York City and the state capital in Albany. When Martin turned 13 he left home to support himself and worked for an attorney as a gofer until he was able to complete school and then qualify to take the bar. During his time serving as an attorney in New York he became involved in politics. Van Buren was a shrewd...
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...report is Martin Van Buren. The author of this book was Ted Widmer. Ted Widmer, or Edward L. Widmer, was born in 1963 and he was a former speechwriter for Bill Clinton who was the President of the United States from 1993-2001. Also, he wrote this book about this man, Martin Van buren, who was the first President born after the signing of the Declaration of Independence Also, Van Buren was the first president who was born without trace of Anglo-Saxon blood. He did not speak English, but rather Dutch. Throughout the book, Widmer tries to convince the reader that Van Buren was not that bad of a President for the United States of America. Everyone puts the blame on him for the Panic of 1837...
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...The Eighth President of the United States Martin Van Buren Martin Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York. His father Abraham owned a tavern where the young Martin was exposed to his first bit of politics because political meeting were often held there. He attended Kinderhook Academy until age fourteen before starting an internship with a lawyer in 1796 and opened his own firm in 1803(Biography). Martin married his cousin, and childhood sweetheart, Hannah Hoes in 1807 and together they had four children, all of whom were boys. He then began to work in politics with the Democratic-Republican party. In 1812 he was elected to the New York State Senate and in 1815 he became the Attorney General of New York. After his wife...
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...Martin Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782. He was born in Kinderhook, New York. He was also the first president to be born after The Revolutionary War. He has Dutch heritage. His second language was English, which was another first. He only had a basic education and studied Latin. He stopped having any sort of formal education since before he was fourteen. That is began studying law. He only grew to be five feet and six inches. He married Hannah Hoes, who was his childhood sweetheart. They had five sons and one daughter. After being married for twelve years, Hanna died of tuberculosis on January fifth in the year of 1819. She was thirty five years old and Martin never remarried. Martin was into politics since before he was seventeen....
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...Martin van Buren was born in 1782. In the small Kinderhook, New York near the Hudson river. Martin had one-step brother and step sister, whose names were James and Marytje who were from his mother first marriage to Johannes VanAllen. Also he had two full blood brothers and two full blood sister, whose names were Lawrence, Abraham, which are his two younger brothers and Derike, Jannetje and those are his older sisters. Martin was the middle child and him and his family lived in a house attached to a tavern, which is an establishment for the sale of beer and other drinks to be consumed on the premises, sometimes also serving food. Where he sometimes worked in after school with his father. His early education was at local schools, then we went to Kinderhook academy until the age 14. He didn’t go to college but he had an apprenticeship as a law clerk at the age of 12. By 1803 Martin was admitted to take the bar. Right after he took the bar Martin established a successful law practice. In February 21, 1807 Martin van Buren got married to...
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...v. Georgia to try and save their land from southern prospectors and farmers and in 1832 the Cherokee Nation won their land but it quickly followed by a implementation of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In the Treaty of Echota in 1835, the United States purchased the remainder of the Cherokee land for five million dollars and Indians of all tribes were force marched west of the Mississippi river by 1838. Andrew Jackson offered only one piece of advice in 1835 to the Indians and it was this protection from Georgia lies west of the Mississippi river. Manifest Destiny With the reign of King Andrew and Martin Van Buren, an anti-Jackson political party grew and named themselves The Whig. In 1836, The Whig’s were given the prime opportunity to destroy Jackson and Van Buren, since the nation was falling into a depression at the time, The Whig’s sought out Henry Clay, but others seen it differently and convinced the party that William Henry Harrison would be the prime candidate to beat King Andrew. Harrison won the president election with the help of The Whig portraying him as a frontiersman and a supporter of westward expansion, into the Oregon territory. References Berkin;Miller;Cherny;Gormly;Egerton, C;C;R;J;D. (2011). Making America: a history of the united states. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage...
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...government, banking, and the law? Jackson’s attitude towards democracy was strong. He formed the Democratic party or the “Jacksonian Democracy.” This promoted the strength of the presidency and executive branch at the expense of Congress while seeking to widen the participation of the public’s participation in government dilemmas. He didn’t want monopolies controlling the people and disliked the banks and wanted to “kill them” believing they were devices to cheat the common people. 2. Explain how Jackson’s actions with the Bank of the United States and the Specie Circular damage the U.S. economy? What did Martin Van Buren do that caused even more damage? President Andrew Jackson refused to renew the charter of Second Bank of the United States which resulted in the withdrawal of government funds from the bank. Martin Van Buren was largely blamed for the panic also. Van Buren's refusal to use government intervention to address the crisis such as emergency relief and increasing spending on public infrastructure projects to reduce unemployment according to his opponents, contributed further to the hardship and duration of the depression that followed the panic. 3. Explain the Cherokee Removal and the part Jackson played. With the Georgia gold rush coming in and countless complaints the United States began the removal of all the Indians to Oklahoma. After demanding both political and military action on removing Native American Indians from the southern states of America...
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...The Native Americans of North America lived for hundreds of years in peace. However, Andrew Jackson’s vision of the United States did not include everyone. As a military leader and as President, Jackson and his followers had no intention of including women in political life, to combat slavery, or give any rights to the Native Americans. Jackson pursued a policy of removing Indian tribes form their lands, which resulted in the Trail of Tears, a name given to the forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States. Many factors during Jackson’s presidency contributed to the political, social, and economic climate of the United States. Jackson had very little political trouble with his policy of removing the Native Americans. Most of his supporters were from the southern and western states that favored a plan to remove all the Indian tribes to lands west of the Mississippi. This relocation would make room for settlers. “There was “Five Civilized Tribes” involved- the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee. “(White 1). In 1831 members of the “Five Civilized Tribes”: decided to use the US Supreme Court to combat Jacksonian policies. The Cherokee Nation asked for an injunction, claiming that Georgia’s state legislation had created laws designed to annihilate the Cherokees as a political society. Andrew Jackson had many supporters because he was freeing up land that would be given to the “common man” who was more...
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...Cherokee once lived in the southern Appalachians. In the eighteenth century, they claimed hunting grounds that extended into Kentucky, but they clustered their villages and agricultural fields in the valleys of upcountry South Carolina, western North Carolina, east Tennessee, north Georgia, and northeastern Alabama, they also spoke four mutually intelligible dialects of an Iroquoian. There were ten million Native Americans on this continent when the first non-Indians arrived. Over the next 300 years, 90 percent of all Native American original population was either wiped out by disease, famire, or warfare imported by the whites. Nineteenth century, the United States forced the Cherokee Nation to surrender its homeland and relocate west of the Mississippi witch is the event known as the trail of tears. The term “Trail of tears.” A rough translation of the Cherokee nunna dual tsung, describes the trek of heart broken people to their new homes in the west. The discovery of the new world by European explorers caused endless problems for American Indians, whose homelands were gradually taken from them and whose cultures were dramatically altered, and in some cases destroyed, by the invasion. By the next two centuries more and more white settlers arrived, and the native cultures responded to pressures to adopt the foreign ways, leading to the deterioration of their own culture. During the colonial period Indian tribes often became embroiled in European colonial wars. If they...
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...The Reach of the Three-Fifths Clause (from Gary Wills, ''Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power) 1. The effect of the clause was that slave states always had more than one-third more seats in Congress than their free population warranted; hence-- 1793—47 instead of 33 1812—76 instead of 59 1833—98 instead 73 2. Between 1788 and the Compromise of 1850 slaveholders controlled: a. the presidency for 50 years b. the speaker’s chair in the House for 41 years c. the chairmanship of House Ways and Means Committee for 42 years 3. The only men to be reelected president—Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe—were all slaveholders 4. Eighteen of 31 Supreme Court justices were slaveholders 5. Southerners controlled the patronage in federal positions—e.g., 57% of the high civil service positions under Adams, 56% under Jefferson, 37% under Jackson 6. Many of Jefferson’s actions and concerns were specifically designed to maintain Southern numerical strength in the political system through the “slave power” (the power of south to control American politics through the 3/5 clause a. survey of the West b. Louisiana purchase c. fear of Burr’s detaching part of the Southwest from the Union d. University of Virginia—a place where southerners could send their best and brightest, rather than to Yale or Harvard where they might hear too much criticism of southern slavery 7. Slavery...
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...and Jackson was such that when the first Democratic National Convention was held Calhoun and Jackson broke from each other politically and Van Buren replaced Calhoun as Jackson's running mate. After Jackson was victorious in being elected a second time, Jackson asked Congress to pass a Force Bill that would allow for the use of military force to enforce the tariff, but it would not be passed until Clay agreed to a lower Compromise Tariff. The Force Bill and Compromise Tariff passed on March 1, 1833, and Jackson signed both. The Force Bill would ultimately be rendered unnecessary as the South Carolina Convention would meet and rescinded its nullification ordinance. Jackson's administration would act more favorably when it came to other nations, creating a fair treaty with Great Britain, settling up with France over damages during the Napoleonic Wars, and accepting the Republic of Texas. His presidency would scared by his signing the Indian Removal Act, which sent most of the Native American tribes in the South to what is now Oklahoma. The relocation process cause many deaths and sickness to drastically affect the Indians. This, along with his personal ownership of slaves would stain Jackson's reputation. After Jackson would leave office he would continue to be a part of Democratic Party politics, supporting the presidencies of Martin Van Buren and James K. Polk. With all things considered, Jackson is believed by most historians to be one of our most successful president. When we...
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...Name: University: Course Title: Instructor: Date: Definition of key terms/ people/places/events Andrew Jackson 236- is a former president of the USA who was inaugurated in 1824. He was commonly called “a man of the people” as he advocated reforms to allow more people the right to vote. Anti-masonry 251- this is a movement which emerged in the early 1820s in a bid to resist the Society of Freemasons. Aroostook 255- this is a war between Canadians and Americans which took place at the Aroostook River region in 1838. Bank war 247- this term refers to a war between Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States. Jackson wanted to destroy the bank but the bank’s president, Nicholas Biddle was determined to save it. Caroline affair 255- a ship by the name Caroline was ferrying supplies to American rebels across the Niagara River. British authorities however detained the ship and burnt it down. In retaliation, the American authorities arrested a Canadian, Alexander McLeod and charged him with the murder of the American who had died when the ship was burnt down. This is what was referred to as the Caroline Affair. Daniel Webster 242- he was a senator for Massachusetts who challenged Robert Hayne’s call for nullification. Dorr rebellion 237- it was started by Thomas W. Dorr who sought to increase the percentage of voters in Rhode Island. He drafted a constitution which...
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...King Mob, for his big inauguration party. Sharp Knife, for his strict, unfeeling ways of dealing with the Indians. Old Hickory, for his strict ways of commanding soldiers under him. King Jackson, to his political enemies. Whatever you call him, even though he was our seventh president, he was the first in many ways. Unlike other presidents, born into privilege and money, Jackson was born into poverty on the western frontier. This greatly influenced his goals once he got into presidency. Jackson ran as the common man, and had a strong distrust of wealthy Northeasterners, which would cause him many conflicts in his later years. Jackson was a shoo-in for the election of 1828, because he was a war hero, and because of the campaign “Corrupt Bargainer vs Military Chieftan”. He ran with John C. Calhoun, who had switched political parties to campaign with him. When Jackson was elected, he relied heavily on the advice of his buddies in Tennessee. So much so that he fired the entire previous president’s government workers and put his supporters there instead. Adhering to Jackson was the Democratic Party, and the National Republicans (Whigs) against him. Disposing of the unpopular caucus system, and the practice of nominating committees came in. This system was popular with Jackson’s supporters because of the fact he was the ‘common man’ and this system could get yeomen into office as well as rich politicians. Jackson also supported states’ rights, a characteristic that gained him...
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...Introduction. The English language started his first steps very long time ago: about fifth century with first settlements of British Islands. Now it`s the most popular language in the world: most of schools in each country give their pupils the subject, the big companies offer job only to english-speakers, in big cities there are all advertisements with translation to English and so on. Today every language has some word from English and also there some of them that became an international. Today more than 15% of the Earth`s population can speak English, so it`s not hard question from wich language the most popular word came. Of course you know this word, it`s "okay". When somebody asks you about your feelings you may say "i`m OK!", when somebody agree with something you may say "He`s okeys" and there`re a lot of examples more. How many times per day do we use word "okay"? 5? 10? Or even more? But do we know anything of it except of the meaning (or only one of them)? I made this project to show you how it`s deep, how many faces it has and just to teach you how to use it in a correct way. Also i want to tell you about it`s history or rather histories, because linguists now days don`t know which of them is true. All it started when my teacher had offered me and some of my schoolmates to take participation in contest about English language and after that i found some interesting information about word "okay". It was really informative to me to read some stories about it's...
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