A | B |
Martin Van Buren | 8th President of the United States |
Panic of 1837 | worst economic crisis that our nation had faced up to that year of 1837 |
Panic Causes | 1.State banks could not back their paper money with gold or silver 2.The price of cotton was falling because of an oversupply |
90 percent | number of factories that were closed during the economic depression of the late 1830s |
William H.Harrison | Whig candidate for President in 1840 and hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe |
John Tyler | Whig Vive Presidential candidate in 1840 |
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too" | Whig campaign slogan of 1840 |
Log Cabin | symbol of the election 1840 |
"keep the ball rolling" | Saying coined in the election of 1840 in which 12 foot diameter balls of twine were covered with Whig slogans |
"No sirrah" | Democrats discouraging anyone from voting for Harrison encouraged them to read is name backwards |
pneumonia | President Harrison died of this after less than a month in office |
John Tyler | 9th President of the United States |
Tyler's cabinet | all but Webster resigned when Tyler disagreed with Whig plan of government |
Bank of the U.S. | Tyler vetoed this reminding Whigs of their enemy, Andrew Jackson |