Jackson became the first President whose home state was neither Massachusetts nor Virginia, while Adams was the second to lose re-election, following his father, John Adams.
The soil was held together by grass roots. It was called sod. Settlers were called sodbusters because they had to break through the sod to plant crops. There was not a lot of wood, so settlers used sod to build homes.
In many ways, the War of 1812 was indeed a "second revolution" because once again the Americans were up against the British, and once again they "won". This placed them with far more economic independence and pride in the nation. It gave them the respect of the world, which made for better foreign relations.
It kept the church from gaining to much power and the govt from gaining too much power it went both ways to cause neutral power between the two.
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Hebrew Bible
Abraham
monotheistic
In the first question, Hebrew Bible is the best answer because it encompasses all the Hebrew Scriptures, including the Torah (the books of Moses) which tell the early history of the patriarchs of the Hebrews. "Ketuvim" and "writings" are the same thing (Hebrew name and English name), and included poetic books like Psalms and Proverbs.
