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Union Trembles: Nullification Crisis Riding his rising political stardom, Henry Clay ran for President in 1824. Despite being a popular national figure, he couldn’t match the national popularity of Andrew Jackson and regional popularity of John Quincy Adams in New England. Clay’s platform was ideologically closest to that of Adams and thus he decided to…
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July 11th, 1804. A duel between the sitting U.S. Vice President, Aaron Burr and former U.S. Secretary of Treasury, founder of the First Bank of The United States, military general, founder of U.S. Coast Guard, and the man generally credited with putting the juggernaut of U.S. economy on its feet, Alexander Hamilton, ends in latter…
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One of America’s unsung heroes of the 19th century is Thaddeus Stevens. Not many people know his name, but he did more to influence your life than iPhone and YouTube put together. Named after American Revolutionary War hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Thaddeus Stevens was born in Vermont in 1792. He was born with a club foot…
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