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“What actually made people panic, and what did it mean to panic? What I discovered many years later is that there were many panics in 1837. There were individual panics, and there were local panics. Even the term ‘Panic of 1837’ has many different ...

Challenges: Three months into Martin Van Buren’s presidency, the Panic of 1837 engulfed the country in its worst depression ... a full quarter—approximately 4,000 of the 15,000 Cherokee people—died.

As president, however, Van Buren maintained Jacksonian policies that magnified an economic downturn, leading to the Panic of 1837. "Martin Van Ruin" was not re-elected... Died: July 24 ...