The Bank of the U.S. controlled much of the nation's gold and silver. ... Members of the Knickerbocker Group include Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant. ... William Cullen Bryant wrote "Thanatopsis," which was one of the first high-quality poems produced in the United States. ...
There he became a member of a powerful political faction led by William Blount. ... The State of Georgia, two Supreme Court decisions in 1831 and 1832 upholding the rights of the Cherokee nation over the State of Georgia who had wanted to destroy Cherokee jurisdiction on it's land because gold had been found on it, and the state seeing the Indians as tenants on state land decided to "kick them out". ...
At the young age of thirteen during the American Revolution he served as an orderly Colonel William Richardson Davie, carrying messages. ... There he became a member of a powerful political faction led by William Blount. ... This was because gold had been found on it, and the state seeing the Indians as tenants on state land decided to "kick them out". ...
