SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
SOUTHERN SECESSION
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the First Amendment
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the Fifth Amendment
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the Thirteenth Amendment
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popular sovereignty
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Detailed explanation-1: -John C. Calhoun loved his country. But he also loved his home state of South Carolina, and he supported its institution of slavery. He believed in states’ rights-that if a state didn’t believe a federal law was constitutional, it didn’t have to obey it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Calhoun of South Carolina first entered politics in 1808 when he was elected to the state legislature. He moved to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1811, where he served almost four terms before resigning to become secretary of war under President James Monroe, a position he held from 1817 to 1825.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was Calhoun’s view on slavery? John C. Calhoun championed states’ rights and slavery and was a symbol of the Old South. He spent the last 20 years of his life in the U.S. Senate working to unite the South against the abolitionist attack on slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina statesman, responded with the Calhoun Resolutions, which said that Congress had no right to stop any citizen with slaves in their possession from taking those slaves into one of the territories.