A candidate for President in 1848 under the Free Soil banner, for 10 points, who was this eighth President of the United States?
The burning of a ship that had been supplying rebels by Canadian loyalists caused this man to protest to Great Britain, to no avail. His second running mate, the grandson of a previous president, was Charles Francis Adams, Sr. He first proposed the establishment of an independent treasury in response to a crisis brought on in part by the demise of the Second Bank of the United States, although his proposals were defeated in Congress. In addition to sending Cherokees from Georgia to present-day Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears, this man had to deal with Caroline affair and the Panic of 1837. A candidate for President in 1848 under the Free Soil banner, for 10 points, who was this eighth President of the United States?
The burning of a ship that had been supplying rebels by Canadian loyalists caused this man to protest to Great Britain, to no avail.
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