Author of John Quincy Adams, Robert V. ... His father, John Adams, along with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, and George Washington placed themselves and their family in danger as they committed treason against Britain, punishable by death, by signing the Declaration of Independence. ... Upon becoming President, Adams appointed Henry Clay to become the new Secretary of State. ... A quote by Robert V Remini, author of John Quincy Adams, "A dedicated expansionist and defender of human rights, John Quincy Adams was the first president to advance a wide-ranging program o...

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In Henry Knox's letter to President Washington in 1789, "the first of which is by raising an army, and [destroying the resisting] tribes entirely or 2ndly by forming treaties of peace with them", "under the existing circumstances of affairs, the United States have a clear right, consistently with the principles of justice and the laws of nature, to proceed to the destruction or expulsion of the savages," the use of the word savages shows that Americans had irreverence toward the Indians" ethnic backgrounds. Henry Knox wanted to destroy the Cherokee tribes in order to gain land for the Uni...

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These Indians were not legally removed, however, because Andrew Jackson had defied the Supreme Court ruling of Worcester v Georgia, which opposed the forced relocation of the Native American nations. ... When the Second Bank of the United States' charter was about to expire, Nicholas Biddle, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster tried to get an early extension. ... These arguments allowed Jackson to win the 1832 election against Henry Clay by a landslide. ... This 'War' also destroyed the American System that Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams had worked to create. ...

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Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as the guardians of the United States Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity. In the light of the following documents and your knowledge of the 1820s and 1830s. To what extent do you agree with the Jacksonian...

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"When a long train of abuses and usurpations take place it is their right, it is their duty to use every constitutional means to reform the abuses of such a government, and to provide new guards for their future security," argued George Henry Evans in "The Working Man's Declaration of Independence," (DOC A). ... Jacksonian Democrats further gave economic opportunity to the individual in the case of Charles River Bridge v. ...

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An armed encounter was averted when Henry Clay proposed a compromise which gradually lowered the tax rates over the next ten years, known as the Compromised of 1833 (South Carolina Nullification Controversy). ... Hoping to gain political support, Henry Clay pushed the renewal of the second B.U.S. through Congress for another twenty years. ... Jackson simply stated that John Marshall had made his decision; now let him enforce it (Worcester v. ...

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