THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
WAR OF 1812
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John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay
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Tecumseh and John C. Calhoun
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Stephen Decatur and Henry Clay
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Stephen Decatur and John C. Calhoun
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Detailed explanation-1: -Young, energetic politicians, mostly from the South and the West and known as War Hawks, initiated legislation designed to steer the United States towards war. Leaders of this group included Henry Clay of Kentucky, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, and Felix Grundy of Tennessee.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -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.