VAN BUREN 



VAN BUREN 



ADMINISTRATION OF VAN BUREN 



First Photograph 

 Taken in 

 America 

 1839 



Magnetic Telegraph 

 Patented, 1837 



First Normal School 

 Opened in Mass. 

 1839 



Subtreasury Bill Passed 

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OTHER EVENTS 



The Alton Riots 

 1837 



The Canadian Rebellion 

 1837 



Cherokee Indians Removed 

 to Indian Territory 

 1838 



Process of Vulcanizing 

 Rubber Discovered in 

 1839 



The Seminole War 



ment in practice had departed from it until 

 Congress had finally given orders, in Jefferson's 

 administration, to keep the government reve- 

 nues in the Bank of the United States. Van 

 Buren believed that the. independent treasury 

 was essential to the public welfare, but it took 

 him three years to get the approval of Con- 

 gress. The independent treasury bill was signed 

 on July 4, 1840. Against Van Buren had been 

 his doubting friends, his political enemies, and 

 the financial interests of the country, but he 

 stood firm and finally won the victory. 

 Other Political and Social Disturbances. 

 1 in the perspective of more th:m ihnv- 

 r.s of a century, the establishment of the 

 independent treasury was the . ent of 



Van Burcn'rt administration and the great 

 achievement of his public career, but at that 

 time there were other disturbances, some of 

 them connect (nl with the panic, which seemed 

 equally important. The slavery issue was the 

 of intense discussion, and violence re- 

 : among the disturbances were riots at 

 Alton. Illinois, ending m tin 1 muni 

 Love joy; the mobbing of William I.loy.l Garri- 

 son in Boston, and anti-abolitionist riots in 

 delphia. 



Other symptoms of social and economic dis- 

 order were the "buckshot war" in Pennsyl- 

 vania, the "broad seal war" in Rhode Island, 

 the antirent disturbances, or "patroon war. 

 New York, and the persecution of the Mor- 

 mons in Missouri. There was trouble on tin 

 border, too, caused by the Canadian Rebellion 

 of 1837; in New York there were feebl. 

 tempts to aid the rebels, and the "Caroline af- 

 fair" for a time threatened serious consequences 

 (see REBELLION OP 1837). In 1838 and 1839 

 occurred the "Aroostook War" in Maine, a 

 feature of the long-standing boundary dispute 

 with Canada. In Florida the second Seminole 

 War, the most costly and most desperate In- 

 dian war in the hi-tory of the Tinted States, 

 was being carried on, and not until 1842 were 

 the Indians conquered and compelled to move 

 to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma (see OSCK- 

 OLA). On the southwestern border at the same 

 time were serious disturbances which ultimately 

 led to war v property and 



-:ms in V re in constant 



dam v because the Mexicans 



American recognition of Texan independence. 



Inventions and Discoveries. During Van 

 Burcn's term a number of important inventions 



