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As major general during the War of 1812, he defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and a British army at the Battle of New Orleans. In 1818, he led an American ...

Charles Grandison Finney

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The "father of modern revivalism," Finney devised many techniques adopted by later revival preachers. He encouraged many women to participate actively in revival.

Billy Yank

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This appellation was used to refer to common soldiers serving in Union armies during the Civil War. See Johnny Reb.

Calvinismo

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Broadly influential Protestant theology emanating from the French theologian John Calvin, who fled to Switzerland, where he reordered life in the community of Geneva according to ...

McCullough v. Maryland

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A landmark 1819 Supreme Court decision establishing Congress's power to charter a national bank and declaring unconstitutional a tax imposed by Maryland on the bank's Baltimore ...

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Danilo R. dela Cruz Jr.

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Super Bowl

The championship game of the NFL (National Football League,) played between the champions of the AFC and NFC at a neutral site late January or early ...