... in Congress as an elected delegate and wrote the Declaration of Independence. Served as Secretary of State under Washington and Vice president under Madison. III. Served two terms (1800-1808) IV. Key issues prominent in Election- federal government vs. state's rights, westward expansion of the nation, Native Americans, the freedom of lower class white men. V. Opponents A. First Election (1800)- Aaron Burr ... George Clinton (1805-1809) as Vice president, James Madison as Secretary of State (1801-1809), Secretary of the Treasury Samuel Dexter (1801) and Albert Gallatin (1801-1809), Secre...

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... with a "Robin Hood- like mentality, denouncing the manipulative aristocracies, and barring such acts as liquor tax collection. Patrick Henry The American Revolution not only gave rise to exemplary patriots, but it also gave rise to great soapbox orators. Patrick Henry was a superb example of a patriotic orator, educated by the College of William and Mary and apprenticed in the law. ... Through his legal expertise, Henry greatly impacted America economically, politically, and legally. Most notably heard in the American colonies was Patrick Henry's cries of "No taxation without representa...

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... McGraw-Hill Book Company in New York published it. This book goes thought the live of six Americans: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. It shows their true character. Benjamin Franklin was a jack-of-all-trades and master of many. No other American, except possibly Thomas Jefferson, has done so many things ... . He brought together elements from the past and shaped them into literature that had an important effect on later American writing. He influenced the work of Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whit...

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... . The Whigs needed a victory in the presidential election if they were to solidify their position as a powerful party and opposition to the Democrats. In 1840, the Whig party nominated William Henry Harrison for presidential candidacy, and John Tyler for vice president. Harrison was portrayed as a man of the people who had been born in a log cabin and could relate to the ... who would control the Whig party. Instead, the Whigs placed loyalty and importance in three people who became known as the "Great Triumvirate". These three people were Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun. He...

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... 's taxable assets. The obvious danger of such economic control initiated a full-blown assailment against wealth, peculiarly lead by some of the richest men in America such as Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and George Washington. These rich, privileged men, and future authors of the Declaration of Independence, were confronted with an atmosphere that desperately required the backing of ... ...

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... being but in his heart, respected the will and potential of man above all. This mentality is aptly demonstrated by Washington's own pen in his letter to Secretary of War, Henry Knox, "If any power on earth could, or the Great Power above would, erect a standard of infallibility in political opinions, there is no being that inhabits this terrestrial globe that ... ...

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