function in the nation. Elected to be the President of the United States‚ Lincoln started constructing his cabinet on his election night. Surprised to many people‚ Lincoln offered William Seward‚ a strong-minded republican who had been his main political rival‚ the position of the Secretary of State because Seward was radical on slavery issue and later considered as a centrist‚ one who supported
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John C. Calhoun was born in Abbeville‚ South Carolina on March 18th‚ 1782 and he supported his family whenever his father was ill when he was still a child. In 1807‚ John became a lawyer and was soon elected to congress in 1810 where he was openly a “war hawk” or someone who wanted to go to war with Great Britain for independence‚ and in 1812 he got his wish when the war of 1812 began. During the war‚ he raised troops so that he could support congress which made him a nationalist and he fought for
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The Armistice of 1850 With the belief of their young country’s “manifest destiny”‚ and victory over Mexico in the Mexican-American War‚ the United States of America conquered most of the western portion of their continent. While obtaining large territories of land through victories from warfare and at the cost of bargained prices‚ this proud nation found itself with an immense crisis sitting within the palms of their hands. As the improvement of the United States came through territorial gains
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John C. Calhoun supported slavery because he believed that it was beneficial to the states in order for them to become prosperous. Because of that belief‚ Calhoun stated that it is up to individual states to protect the existence of slavery in order to keep moving forward. Another idea he brings up is that slaves should never be equal to white American citizens. If there were to be two free races‚ both of equal size‚ one will always have to be subjective to the other. Basically‚ he believed that
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Daniel Webster Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury‚ New Hampshire‚ on January 18‚ 1782. Daniel was delicate‚ but a brilliant child‚ his family realized this‚ and made great expense to put Daniel and his brother Ezekiel through school. After graduating from Dartmouth College‚ he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1805. Daniel Webster‚ was a well known public speaker and major constitutional lawyer; he was a major congressional representative for the Northern Whigs during
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John C. Calhoun: The Starter of the Civil War If one person could be called the instigator of the Civil War‚ it was John C. Calhoun -- Unknown. The fact that he never wanted the South to break away from the United States as it would a decade after his death‚ his words and life ’s work made him the father of secession. In a very real way‚ he started the American Civil War. Slavery was the foundation of the antebellum South. More than any other characteristic‚ it defined Southern social‚ political
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John Caldwell Calhoun was born march 18‚ 1782 in South Carolina‚ Calhoun was conceived‚ and instructed at Yale College. From 1808 to 1810 a monetary subsidence hit the United States and Calhoun understood that British arrangements were destroying the economy. He served in South Carolina’s governing body and was chosen to the United States House of Representatives serving three terms. In 1812‚ Calhoun and Henry Clay‚ two acclaimed "warhawks"‚ who favored war to the "putrescent pool of ignominous peace"
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As the compromise of 1850 created by Henry Clay had opened up the concept of popular sovereignty‚ by allowing territories to determine their own status. This doctrine allowed States to make their own choice on how to keep their Government and if they wanted to be a free state or a slave state. As settlers streamed into Kansas and Nebraska which were above the 36° 30’ latitude line‚ the question seemed open to popular sovereignty. The two territories were West of Missouri‚ a slave state and many settlers
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John C. Calhoun: The Other side of the American Dream Slavery was the foundation of the antebellum South. More than any other characteristic‚ it defined Southern political‚ cultural‚ and social life. It also united the South as a section different from the rest of the country. John Caldwell Calhoun of South Carolina was committed to both state’s rights and slavery as seen as the South’s only protection from destruction by the industrious North. John C. Calhoun‚ the South ’s recognized intellectual
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John Winthrop’s speech to the Massachusetts General Court he outlines two types of liberties in early America. He calls the two liberties Natural liberty and civil or federal liberty. In John Winthrop’s speech he describes that if men follow natural liberty they will become more and more evil over time and eventually become worse than beast’s. If men are allowed to do as they please man and authority cannot co-exist. Men who follow natural liberty are a great evil to truth and peace “Which all ordinances
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