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Paul JonesAmerican Pageant Chapter 121.William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States, anAmerican military officer and  politician, and the first president to die in office. The oldest president elected untilRonald Reaganin 1980, and last President to be born before the United States Declaration of Independence,Harrison died on his thirty-second day in office—theshortest tenure in United States presidential history. His death sparked a brief constitutional crisis, but that crisis ultimately resolved many questions about presidentialsuccession left unanswered by theConstitutionuntil passage of the 25th Amendment.
2.Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key was anAmerican lawyer , author, and amateur   poet,from Georgetown,who wrote the words to the United States'national anthem, "The Star- Spangled Banner ."
3.Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was theseventh President of the United States (1829–1837). He was military governor  of Florida(1821), commander of the American forces at theBattle of   New Orleans(1815), andeponymof the era of Jacksonian democracy. A polarizing figure who dominatedAmerican politicsin the 1820s and 1830s, his political ambitioncombined with widening political participation, shaping the modernDemocratic Party.[1] His legacy is now seen as mixed, as a protector of   popular democracyand individual liberty, checkered by his support for Indian removalandslavery. Renowned for his toughness, he was nicknamed “Old Hickory." As he based his career in developingTennessee, Jackson was the first president primarily associated with the American frontier . His portrait appears on theUnited States twenty-dollar bill.
4.James Monroe
James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was thefifth President of the United States(1817–1825). His administration was marked by the acquisition of  Florida (1819); theMissouri Compromise (1820), in whichMissouriwas declared a slave state; the admission of Maine in 1820 as a free state; and the profession of the Monroe Doctrine  (1823), declaring U.S. opposition toEuropeaninterference in theAmericas,as well as  breaking all ties with France remaining from theWar of 1812.
5.John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was the seventh Vice Presidentof theUnited Statesand a leading Southernpolitician from South Carolina  during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun was an advocate of slavery,states' rights, limited government, andnullification. He was the second man to serve as Vice President under two administrations (as aDemocratic-Republicanunder John Quincy Adamsand as aDemocratunder Andrew Jackson
 
), the first Vice President to have been born after theAmerican Revolution,and the first Vice President to resign from office. Calhoun briefly served in the South Carolina legislature. There he wrote legislationmaking South Carolina the first state to adoptuniversal suffragefor white men.
6.John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was thesixth President of  the United Statesfrom March 4, 1825 to March 4, 1829. He was also an American
 
diplomatand served in both the Senate and House of Representatives. He was a member of theFederalist,Democratic-Republican,  National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic  and Whig  parties.
7.Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading Americanstatesman during the nation'sAntebellum Period. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of  New Englandshipping interests. His increasinglynationalistic  views and the effectiveness with which he articulated them led Webster to become one of the most famous orators and influentialWhigleaders of the Second Party System.
8.Henry Clay
Henry Clay, Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was a nineteenth-century American  statesman andorator  who representedKentuckyin both theHouse of Representativesand Senate. He served asSecretary of Statefrom 1825 to 1829. He was a dominant figure in both theFirst Party Systemand theSecond Party System. Known as "The Great Compromiser" and "The Great Pacifier" for his ability to bring others to agreement, he was the founder and leader of theWhig Party and a leading advocate of programs for modernizing the economy, especially tariffs to protect industryfrom international competition, a national bank, and internal improvements to promotecanals, ports and railroads.
9.Nationalism
 Nationalism is anideology, a sentiment, a form of culture, or asocial movementthat focuses on thenation. It is a type of collectivismemphasizing the collective of a specific nation. While there is significant debate over the historical origins of nations, nearly allspecialists accept that nationalism, at least as an ideology and social movement, is amodernphenomenon originating inEurope.
10.Peculiar institution
"(Our) peculiar institution" was aneuphemismfor slaveryand the economic ramifications of it in theAmerican South.The meaning of "peculiar" in this expression is "one's own", that is, referring to something distinctive to or characteristic of a particular  place or people. The proper use of the expression is always as a possessive, e.g., "our  peculiar institution" or "the South's peculiar institution". It was in popular use during thefirst half of the 19th century, especially in legislative bodies, as the word slavery wasdeemed "improper," and was actually banned in certain areas.
11.Sectionalism
Sectionalism is loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country,rather than the nation as a whole.
12.American System
The American System was amercantilisteconomic plan based on the "American School" ideas of Alexander Hamilton,expanded upon later by Friedrich List, consisting of a hightariff to supportinternal improvements such as road-building, and a national  bank to encourage productive enterprise and form a national currency. This program wasintended to allow the United States to grow and prosper, by providing a defense againstthe dumping of cheap foreign products, mainly at the time from the British Empire.
13.Era of Good Feelings
The Era of Good Feelings (1817–25)[1]describes a period in United Statespolitical history in which partisan bitterness abated. The phrase was coined byBenjamin Russell,
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