JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
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John C. Calhoun
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Henry Clay
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Andrew Jackson
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A staunch defender of the institution of slavery, and a slave-owner himself, Calhoun was the Senate’s most prominent states’ rights advocate, and his doctrine of nullification professed that individual states had a right to reject federal policies that they deemed unconstitutional.
Detailed explanation-2: -He pushed for the annexation of Texas so that the area would be open to slavery, and he argued passionately that slaveholders could take their enslaved people into free states and still own them. This debate over states’ rights and slavery would eventually lead to the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -Additionally, Calhoun and John Quincy Adams were close personal friends and similar to Adams, Calhoun denounced the British for their attacks on American ships and supported the embargo that led to the War of 1812. Calhoun himself was a War Hawk and fervently supported the War of 1812.