Ch. 12-13

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was the military commander who exceeded his government's instructions during an invasion of Spanish territory

Andrew Jackson

was the leading voice promoting nationalism and greater federal power in the United States Senate in the 1820s

Daniel Webster

Was a frontier Hero, Tennessee congressman, and teller of tale tales who died at the Alamo

David Crocket

was the eloquent Kentucky spokesman for the American System and key architect of the Missouri compromise in the U.S. Senate

Henry Clay

Was the president whose personal popularity contributed to the Era of Good Feelings

James Monroe

Was the former Vice President, leader of South Carolina nullifiers, and bitter enemy of Andrew Jackson.

John C. Calhoun

was the aristocratic Federalist jurist whose rulings bolstered national power against the states

John Marshall

was the nationalist Secretary of State who promoted American interests against Spain and Britain

John Quincy Adams

Was known as the "wizard of Albany" and whose economically troubled presidency was served in the shadow of Jackson

Martin Van Buren

was the original leader of American settlers in Texas who obtained a huge land grant from the Mexican government

Moses Austin

was the talented but high-handed bank president who fought a bitter losing battle with the president of the United States

Nicholas Biddle

was the Seminole leader whose warriors killed fifteen hundred American soldiers in years of guerrilla warfare

Osceola

Was the former Tennessee governor whose victory at San Jacinto in 1836 won Texas its independence

Sam Houston

Was the Cherokee leader who devised an alphabet for his people

Sequoyah

was one of the first nationalistic American writers to achieve literary recognition in Europe

Washington Irving

Was "Old Tippecanoe," portrayed by Whig propagandists as hard-drinking common man of the frontier

William Henry Harrison


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