APUSH Chapter 17 (The American Pageant)

William Henry Harrison was an American military leader, politician, the ninth President of the United States, and the first President to die in office. His death created a brief constitutional crisis, but ultimately resolved many questions about presidential succession left unanswered by the Constitution until passage of the 25th Amendment. Led US forces in the Battle of Tippecanoe. (9th President) Harrison's Cabinet -secretary of state: Daniel Webster -spokesman of senate: Henry Clay **Whigs** John Tyler elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died , President responsible for annexation of Mexico after receiving mandate from Polk, opposed many parts of the Whig program for economic recovery Whigs conservatives and popular with pro-Bank people and plantation owners. They mainly came from the National Republican Party, which was once largely Federalists. They took their name from the British political party that had opposed King George during the American Revolution. Their policies included support of industry, protective tariffs, and Clay's American System. They were generally upper class in origin. Included Clay and Webster Fiscal Bank Went on the same lines as the two Banks of the US It seems the word fiscal in the title gave the idea that it would overcome some of the popular objections to the establishment of a third great national bank. President vetoed it in 1841 on alleged constitutional grounds. This ended all serious attempts to create a great national bank. Third War with England "War" in which British and American writers "fought" with scathing written commentaries about the opposing country. It was fostered by lingering Ant-British feeling in America from the 2 wars and British "Travel