Martin Van Buren

Question 1

Panic of 1837

Answer 1

-led to widespread unemployment, economic depression, devaluing of cotton and paper money, and bank and financial failures. President Van Buren blamed the crisis on the easy availability of credit and rampant speculation but it was also because the banks closed

Question 2

Second Great Awakening-

Answer 2

Charles Finney started revivals in New York, appealing to emotion. In the South, Baptists and Methodists were large Protestant groups.

Question 3

Liberty Party-

Answer 3

Candidate James Birney in 1840 and 1844, pledge to bring ed to slavery