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Tariff of 1816
The Tariff of 1816 imposed a high tax on foreign goods to protect American industry after the War of 1812.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821) seized power in France at the end of the French Revolution and turned his focus toward expanding his empire. In 1803, Napoleon sold the entire Louisiana Territory to the United States. Also in 1803, just before crowning himself emperor, Napoleon began waging wars for expansion, conquering most of Europe. Conflict between France and Great Britain complicated things for neutral America, with the warring countries placing restrictions on American trade. The United States responded to the restrictions with the...
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Tecumseh
Tecumseh (1768–1813) was a Shawnee leader who organized American Indian resistance to white expansion into Indian lands. Following the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, which gave the United States control of most of the Ohio Territory and which Tecumseh vehemently opposed, Tecumseh rose as a prominent American Indian leader. In 1805, his brother Tenskwatawa experienced a vision calling on his people to end their dependence on white traders and return to native ways. The brothers began to form a confederation to resist white incursion. Tecumseh...
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Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key (1779–1843) was the American writer and lawyer who authored the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the national anthem of the United States. Key was inspired to write the anthem while witnessing the Battle of Baltimore from aboard a British warship during the War of 1812.
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Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike (1779–1813) was an American officer and explorer. Pike’s Peak in Colorado is named in his honor. He was sent to explore the southern portion of the Louisiana Purchase in 1806–1807, but he was captured by the Spanish and held briefly in 1807. He was killed in the War of 1812.
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James Monroe
James Monroe (1758–1831) was the fifth president of the United States. A Virginia native, Monroe was also a veteran of the American Revolution, having crossed the Delaware with George Washington and been in the battles at Trenton, Brandywine, and Germantown. After the war, Monroe returned to Virginia to study law under Thomas Jefferson, who would act as Monroe’s mentor and greatly influence his political views. Monroe served as a public servant in myriad positions over the years, in the Virginia House of Delegates, Confederation Congress,...
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Andrew Jackson
Born on the western frontier of the Carolinas, Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) was the seventh president of the United States and the first from west of the Appalachians. Jackson rose from poverty to a career in law and politics, becoming Tennessee’s first congressman, a senator, and judge on the state supreme court. Although he would later gain a reputation as the champion of the common people, in Tennessee he was allied by marriage, business, and political ties to the state’s elite. As a land speculator, cotton planter, and attorney, he...
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Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott (1786–1866), “Old Fuss and Feathers,” was the associate of every president from Jefferson to Lincoln. Scott entered the military in 1809 and distinguished himself during the War of 1812 at the battles of Chippewa and Lundy’s Lane. He went on to serve in the Black Hawk War and the campaign against the Seminole and Creole Indians. After mediating an Anglo-American dispute over the Canadian border in 1838, Scott was appointed general-in-chief of the US Army in 1841. Due to his successes in the Mexican-American War (1846–1848),...
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George III
George III (1738–1820) was the king of Great Britain during the American Revolution. He assumed the throne in 1760 and led Great Britain during the last part of the French and Indian War. In the 1760s, with the passage of economically oppressive acts such as the Stamp Act of 1765 and Townshend Acts of 1767, many colonists in British America began to view the king as a tyrant, even though the king himself was not primarily responsible for the enactment of those policies. By July 4, 1776, in the Declaration of Independence, the Continental...