After succeeding President William Henry Harrison following his death from pneumonia, President John Tyler clashed with prominent members of the Whig Party including members of his own cabinet over
A) Tyler's signing of the Land Act of 1841 making it easier for homesteaders to buy federal land or keep land on which they were squatters.
B) Tyler's signature of the first federal Bankruptcy Act.
C) Tyler's veto of a bill to re-create the Bank of the United States and a follow-up bill that would have created a "fiscal corporation" that would have more limited powers.
D) the resolution of Canadian border problems with Britain with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.
Ans: C) Tyler's veto of a bill to re-create the Bank of the United States and a follow-up bill that would have created a "fiscal corporation" that would have more limited powers.
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