John C. Calhoun

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1828 tariff law nicknamed?

"Tariff of Abominations"

Year first elected into the H.O.R.?

1811

When did he leave congress?

1817

What year was Calhoun re-elected VP?

1828

Nationalist

A person who is devoted to the interests of his or her country.

Home city and State?

Abbeville, South Carolina

Who did he serve with the second time he was VP?

Andrew Jackson

in 1822 he considered running for president against John Q. Adams, who forced him to step back?

Andrew Jackson

Early in his career he was a...?

Ardent nationalist, a supporter of the War of 1812 against England, And a cautious supporter of the 1816 Tariff as a source of revenue to replenish the Federal treasury after the war.

It was in a speech in response to this tariff that Calhoun first...?

Articulated the doctrine of nullification

What was Calhoun's thoughts about the 1828 tariff law?

He opposed as detrimental to the interests of the South and preservation of the Union

In his last speech to the Senate on the admission of California to the Union as a free state, he did what?

He reiterated his positions on states' rights and foresaw bleak prospects for the continuation of the Union.

Along with his nemesis J.Q. Adams, Calhoun was on of the founders of what?

He was one of the founders of the All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington D.C.

While protecting northern manufactures this tariff made it more difficult to do what?

It made it more difficult for southern trade with Europe.

What did the nullification doctrine do?

It was Calhoun's first line of defense for the protection of minority rights against the tyranny of the majority, particularly the rights of southern agricultural slave-owners against the rising power of northern capitalists.

Compromise of 1833.

It was a new tariff proposed by Henry Clay and John Calhoun that gradually lowered the tariff to the level of the tariff of 1816 This compromise avoided civil war and prolonged the union for another 30 years.

What was the nullification?

It was a special instance of the older notion of "states' rights".

Who was Calhoun's rival?

John Quincy Adams

Date of Birth?

March 18, 1782

Was Calhoun bffs with Jackson

Nooope

Religion?

Raised a Calvinist.

Who was Calhoun's chief opponent in the Jackson cabinet?

Secretary of State Martin Van Buren

what was he in the Monroe administration?

Secretary of War

Who is another Jackson cabinet member?

Secretary of War and former Tennessee senator John Eaton

What state was especially mad about this Tariff.

South Carolina

What is the Union?

The United States as one country united under a single government. During the civil war "the Union" came to mean the government and armies of the north.

Tyler's secretary of state died and Calhoun came and filled that spot after he resigned from congress. what two difficult issues did he address as Secretary of State?

The annexation of Texas and the resolution of the northwest boundary dispute with England.

Tariff of 1816

This protective tariff helped American industry by raising the prices of British manufactured goods, which were often cheaper and of higher quality than those produced in the U.S. (raised revenues to operate the national government).

When J.Q. adams was president what was Calhoun?

Vice-president

School? (not college)

Waddel's school

College?

Yale

What did Calhoun begin his political career as?

a nationalist

The Whig ticket of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler defeated President Van Buren's bid for re-election and (senator) Calhoun finally found himself what for the first time?

he found himself allied with the president for the first time (john tyler, also a slave-owning southern conservative)

In order to advert civil war, Calhoun did what?

he reluctantly collaborated with his political opponent Henry Clay to craft the Compromise Tariff of 1833.

After Jackson's re-election Calhoun did what?

he returned to the senate

Calhoun also sided with Tyler for what?

he sided with Tyler in opposition to a central bank

Presiding over the senate, what was Calhoun?

he was leader of the opposition to the Adams administration.

In both religion and politics he thought the same way:

he was rational, consistent, factual, and resistant to either emotional pleas or divine commands

Calhoun's second contribution to political thought was the what?

the doctrine of "concurrent majorities"


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