| A | B |
|---|
| The "wizard of Albany," whose economically troubled presidency was served in the shadow of Jackson | Martin Van Buren |
| Free South Carolina black whose 1822 rebellion raised southern fears about the future of slavery | Denmark Vesey |
| Original leader of American settlers in Texas who obtained a huge land grant from the Mexican government | Stephen Austin |
| Former Tennessee governor whose victory at San Jacinto in 1836 won Texas its independence | Sam Houston |
| Talented but high-handed bank president who fought a bitter losing battle with the president of the United States | Nicholas Biddle |
| Former vice president, leader of South Carolina nullifiers, and bitter enemy of Andrew Jackson | John C. Calhoun |
| Seminole leader whose warriors killed fifteen hundred American soldiers in years of guerrilla warfare | Osceola |
| Political party that generally stressed individual liberty, the rights of the common people, and hostility to privilege | Democrats |
