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Throughout American political history, conservatives and liberals have been battling for control of the government.

William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech did little to sway American voters that supported the gold standard and higher tariffs as a means to greater prosperity.

Grover Cleveland's first term as President of the United States saw him attempting to reform the Federal Government, though he did little legistlating.

The Nullification Crisis resulted from federal passage of two protective tariffs, prompting men like John C. Calhoun to assert state sovereignty over federal law.

Henry Clay was a major candidate on three unsuccessful occasions, promoting his American System against Andrew Jackson and the Democrats.

The Confederate constitution was a rewrite of the U.S. Constitution from a Southern perspective.

The election of 1824 pitted two factions of the Republican party, the only major party existing, against each other: National versus Radical or Old Republicans.

Abraham Lincoln's first foray into politics featured a strict adherence to destructive Whig Party economic policies and minimal attention to the slavery issue.

Benjamin Harrison's four years in the office of President has been largely forgotten in the century since. His legacy is mixed, despite a strong legislative agenda.

John Adams, member of the Federalist party, was a true American patriot, though once in office the politics of his party kept him from a second term.

The scandalous history of Peggy Eaton caused the cabinet of President Andrew Jackson to fall apart, thus furthering the Jackson-Calhoun split and delaying the Civil War.

Honest Grover Cleveland won the popular vote in three consecutive presidential elections, a feat shared by Andrew Jackson and exceeded only by Franklin Roosevelt

Kauai is known as the place where the sugar cane industry in Hawaii was born. Once the industrial mainstay of the Kauai economy it is still part of the island's heritage.

The first Democratic president to be elected following the American Civil War, Grover Cleveland was also the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.

Theodore Roosevelt's plan to place William Taft into the Presidency as a hand-picked successor did not turn out as well as he had hoped, as Taft had a mind of his own.

Following the election of 1840, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler each were briefly the American President.

Finally defeating Benjamin Harrison on his second attempt, Grover Cleveland returned to the White House, but times had changed.

Howard Zinn, in A People's History of The United States, offers a penetrating critique of the universal ideas characteristically attributed to the Founding Fathers

Abraham Lincoln's victory in the 1860 presidential election ensured that the divisions between North and South could not be resolved.

From the beginning, John Quincy Adams faced an uphill battle as President. He was never quite able to prove wrong those who viewed his Presidency as being "illegitimate.

Two summer stories about fish: The Grouper - the one that got away (or was not there to begin with; and The Striper - the one that didn't. It became the life of the party

Whig legislators Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, and David Crockett recognized the importance of infrastructural development in the West.

Martin Van Buren, as President of the United States, played a key role in establishing the Jacksonian Democratic party and in creating the second American party system.

Andrew Jackson was a polarizing figure in the history of American politics. He was a strong and capable leader with a violent tempor and a very clear vision of America,