... the circular's institution. S. Michigan entered the union on January 26, 1837, becoming the 26th state. IX. Major Foreign Policy A. The Alamo, defended by 187 Texans, was defeated by 5,000 regular Mexican forces who rushed the Alamo, easily overtaking the Texans due to their overwhelming numbers. B. Texans, infuriated by the Alamo massacre, began eagerly fighting for independence in mid-March, 1836. C. Texas ... insisted that it was not the state's right to revoke federal laws. Jackson handled this situation in a manner that allowed both the federal and state governments to get what the...

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... 's continuing hard-money, antibank campaigns offended more conservative men "the so-called Bank Democrats "who, whatever their displeasure with the Second Bank of the United States, did not want to see the entire paper money credit system dramatically curtailed. The oppositionist core, however, came from a cross-class coalition, strongest in rapidly commercializing areas, that viewed the market revolution as ... free labor. It would take until the 1850s before these contradictions fully unraveled the Jacksonian coalition. But as early as the mid-1840s, during the debates over Texas annex...

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