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In his 1823 State of the Union message, United States President James Monroe addressed several important domestic and foreign policy matters, but the most notable aspect of this address was the articulation of what became known as the Monroe Doctrine. In this doctrine, Monroe warned European powers against further colonization in the Americas ...
February 3 – Jackson Male Academy, precursor of Union University, opens in Tennessee.; February 28 – Johnson v.McIntosh decided in the Marshall Court, a landmark Supreme Court decision relating to aboriginal title in the United States.
The Treaty of Moultrie Creek, also known as the Treaty with the Florida Tribes of Indians, was an agreement signed in 1823 between the government of the United States and the chiefs of several groups and bands of Native Americans living in the present-day state of Florida.
The best-known version is the signed copy displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., popularly regarded as the official document; this copy, engrossed by Timothy Matlack, was ordered by Congress on July 19, and signed primarily on August 2, 1776. [4] [5] The 56 delegates who signed the Declaration represented each of the Thirteen ...
The signed copy of the Declaration, engrossed by Timothy Matlack, is now badly faded. It is on display in the Charters of Freedom rotunda at the National Archives in Washington, DC . The physical history of the United States Declaration of Independence spans from its original drafting in 1776 into the discovery of historical documents in the ...
Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1822 and 1823, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. [1] In these elections, terms were up for the senators in Class 2. The Democratic-Republican Party continued to maintain almost complete control of the Senate.
The Presentment Clause, which is contained in Article I, Section 7, Clauses 2 and 3, provides: . Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States: If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who ...
A contemporary map of the reservation assigned to the Seminole Indians in the Treaty of Moultrie Creek. By the Treaty of Moultrie Creek in 1823, the Seminoles had relinquished all claims to land in the Florida Territory in return for a reservation in the center of the Florida peninsula and certain payments, supplies and services to be provided by the U.S. government, guaranteed for twenty years.