USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Leaders of this group included Henry Clay of Kentucky, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, and Felix Grundy of Tennessee. Grundy, in particular, set the tone for the War Hawks by proclaiming he would rather have war than further “submit” to British insults.

Detailed explanation-2: -Clay and Calhoun would both die in the early 1850s, a decade before the nation they both loved and labored for engaged in a costly civil war.

Detailed explanation-3: -Henry Clay of Kentucky, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, and Daniel Webster of Massachusetts dominated national politics from the end of the War of 1812 until their deaths in the early 1850s.

Detailed explanation-4: -The War Hawks, who included such future political leaders as Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, fiercely and aggressively resented American economic injuries and national humiliation during the Napoleonic Wars.