Identifier: bookshelfforboys00univ019 (find matches)
Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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hn Quincy Adamswith Richard Rush for Vice-President; theDemocrats name Andrew Jackson for Presidentand John C. Calhoun for Vice-President; Jack-son and Calhoun are elected. 1829—The legislatures of Georgia and SouthCarolina protest against the Tariff Act on woolenand cotton goods.—General Jackson is inaugu-rated President.—The first session of the 21stCongress opens December 7, both houses havinga Democratic majority. 1830—A treaty is signed between the UnitedStates and Turkey.—Louis McLane, ministerto England, reopens the discussion with GreatBritain regarding colonial trade.—The Anti-Masonic party holds, in Philadelphia, the first na-tional convention of a political party.—The cityof Chicago is founded. 1831—The Presidents cabinet is dissolved byresignations and successors appointed.—Ex-Pres-ident James Monroe dies July 4.—The Anti-Ma-sonic convention in Baltimore, nominatesWilliam Wirt for President and Amos Ellmakerfor Vice-President—the first nomination ever
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CONFEDERATE STATESMEN AND LEADERS. 55 256 EVENTS OF OUR COUNTRYS HISTORY made by a national convention.—The conventionof National Republicans nominated Henry Clay,of Kentucky, for President.—The first session ofthe 22d Congress opens December 5. 1832—The first Democratic national conven-tion meets in Baltimore, in May, and renominatesGeneral Jackson for President, and )\Iartin VanBuren, of New York, for Vice-President.—BlackHawk, the Indian chief, repudiates the treatymade with Chief Keokuk, and after a series ofbattles he is captured by General Atkinson.—The State Rights Party in South Carolina holdsa convention, passes the Ordinance of Nulli-fication, and declares the acts of Congress re-garding protection to be henceforth null andvoid.—The President issues a proclamation as-serting that the laws of the United States mustbe executed, and the government takes steps tomaintain them. A treaty is made with the Sem-inole Indians, and they agree to remove fromtheir lands.—Co

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