What Americans may have lacked in quality in their institutions of learning, they compensated for in terms of quantity. For better or worse, the American Republic was shaped—intellectually as well as politically—by the Enlightenment. […]
America reeled through the Van Buren presidency without much direction or hope from him. The Whigs saw this as an opportunity that could open the path to Washington City for them. […]
After a long tussle between Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle, the Second Bank war finally came to an end with Jackson emerging victorious. […]
While Nicholas Biddle and Henry Clay tried to get the Second Bank rechartered, they knew Andrew Jackson will veto it. Jackson saw how the bank favored the elites and tried to restrain it by exercising his veto power. […]
The Second Bank of the United States enjoyed a financial liquidity that gave it an upper hand over other banks. Its status as both a private and public enterprise invested it with immense power. […]
While the Whigs thought of liberty as freedom from the restraints of localism, Democrats thought of freedom as the privilege of restraining large concentrations of wealth and power. However, both thought of themselves as champions of liberty. […]
The Whigs believed that only a strong national union could guarantee the penetration of the market and the establishment of Christian influence. […]
There was division within the Republican house, which got exposed with the Bank War. Thus, Henry Clay pushed for the divorce of the old Republican Party. […]
Officer Hazard Perry built ten small ships to take out British squadrons. Surprisingly, he was successful against the British ships. […]
America had to endure two different military threats in 1811. On the one hand, it was on the brink of war with Great Britain, and on the other, some wanted the U.S. to invade Canada. […]
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