... Onis Treaty of 1819 gave Florida to the U.S. in return for five million dollars and claims on present day Texas. Another big act that was passed was the Indian Removal Act. This called for the removal of all Indians east of the Mississippi border. As the U.S. began to expand into a bigger, dominant country, James Monroe ... fiction. Unlike Fenimore Catharine Maria Sedgwick made her female characters heroines. Fenimore always made his female characters dull and boring. Not only was writing changing, so was art. A group of artists emerged called the Hudson River School. Those artists usuall...

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• Grade Level: High School

... should be taken literally and strictly. No where did the constitution call for a national bank so these powers were reserved for the states to deal with. Hamilton replied by stating Art. I, Sec. VIII, para. 18 of the constitution. The government may pass any laws necessary and proper. Jefferson felt the constitution grants only what it literally claims contradictory to Hamilton's what ... got permission to enter these areas but he was forced to respect anything under a Spanish flag. Jackson neglected his boundaries though taking force to two Spanish posts and killing two Indian chiefs w...

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• Grade Level: High School

... amazing range. He became one of the leading American architects of his time and designed the Virginia Capitol, the University of Virginia, and his own home, Monticello. He greatly appreciated art and music and tried to encourage their advancement in the United States. He arranged for the famous French sculptor Jean Houdon to come to America to make a statue of George ... state university. He developed the decimal system of coinage that allows Americans to keep accounts in dollars and cents. He compiled a Manual of Parliamentary Practice and prepared written vocabularies of Indian languag...

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... that animals in Europe were generally larger than those found in America. When covering the topic of the discovery of the mammoth, Jefferson states that they were largest known quadrupeds. Indian tradition claimed that mammoths were carnivores, and that some still existed in the Northern parts of America. In and around the Ohio river, an extensive number if extremely large tusks ... mentions the great leadership of Washington, the inventor Franklin, and a self-taught astronomer named Rittenhouse. "As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, w...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate