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Election of 1832
... Buren, who had been Secretary of State until the Peggy Eaton Affair. Calhoun ... Election of 1824, were replaced with state caucuses. Van Buren al

John Crittenden
... Senate, and he returned to the state in 1819. He re-entered politics, serving as speaker ... of Kentucky. As a powerful border state politician, C

Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820)
... on mdy:January 8, 1818. John Scott, state:Missouri's "Delegate to Congress," presented two additional ... and March 16. Only the second state orga

Panic of 1819
Panic of 1819 There were three key causes of the Panic of 1819, inflation, public debt from the War ... and directed attention to the crucial 1819-182