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North and South As the north and south began to separate after the Era of Good Feelings (1815-1825), the Second American Party System was established. This system consisted of two distinct parties, the Democrats and their opponents, who were known as Whigs for the most part. The goal of these two parties was to create a common thought process between the north and the south. Three of the issues prominent in their campaigns to gather votes in these two regions were government, economy, and slavery

Henry Clay was born on April 12, 1777, in Hanover County, Virginia. He was raised in a modest middle classed home; he was one of the nine children born to Reverend John and Elizabeth Hudson Clay. His first link into his American history came at an early age when He was 3, he had watched the British soldiers ransack his family home. His political career had kicked off in 1803 when he was elected to the General Assembly in Kentucky. Voters were drawn toward Clay's Jeffersonian politics, which early

When Senator Henry Clay sided with Nicholas Biddle, the president of the Bank, and encouraged him to renew his charter four years earlier. Since Clay was also running for president that year he believed that Jackson had chosen the “unpopular side” and that a “congressional endorsement of the Bank would embarrass or even discredit

Timothy J. Henderson’s A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States (2007) and Amy S. Greenberg’s A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico (2012) offer two narratives of the United States –Mexican War. Both authors conclude that the United States justification for war with Mexico was without warrant; however, they contradict their central arguments that actions of the United States, and President James K. Polk, were not justified by letting their biases

Between 1800 and 1850, political parties were changing significantly in terms of national identity and group identity. In these documents, it shows Andrew Jackson’ major decisions he made that affected the US. Andrew Jackson was a Democrat who won in the election of 1828. People voted for him because he was the “president of the common man”. He was the president of the common man because he believed that all white male citizens should have equal rights. The US’s national identity included all white

congressional rival Henry Clay wanted this to be a central issue of the presidential election of 1832. Senator Clay believed that with the pressures of President Jackson seeking reelection, Jackson would be more inclined to re-charter the Second National Bank; whereas, if President Jackson was reelected, Jackson would not have anything to lose and decide to veto the re-chartering of the bank in 1836 when the charter was scheduled to end. Writing Nicholas Biddle, Senator Clay expressed this belief

Mia Zhang Mrs. Heinrich AP U.S History Period 6 10 November 2015 Andrew Jackson, a Hero and his Impacts Andrew Jackson is perceived as one of the most influential figures in U.S history and may as well be renowned for the controversy he has laid through his impacts during his presidency. Despite the continuous dispute of how we should perceive this figure, it is undeniable that he has left a permanent imprint upon American politics, and that his support of individual liberty and his appearance as

Henry Clay: The Great Compromiser Henry Clay is probably the most famous Congressman to have never been elected President. He was known as the Great Compromiser, and was a member of the Congress for 40 years. Clay was a member of the "Great Triumvirate" along with Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun. In his time in Washington he ran for president 5 times, but was never successful. He founded the Whig party, and was instrumental in defining the issues of the second party system. He also served

Henry Clay’s American System 1832 Background: Following the War of 1812, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and John Quincy Adams helped form a new political agenda, which promised to meet the needs of America. It was a new nationalist United States. Henry Clay's "American System" was a neofederalist program of a national bank, a tariff to promote and protect industry’s, and financial improvements. Parties Involved: Henry Clays started as lawyer In Richmond, Virginia. In 1797 he quickly acquired

In the political cartoon called by the name of New edition of Macbeth. Bank-oh’s Ghost a very ghastly scene was unfolding. The primary context for the painting itself was the Panic of 1837 that occurred just as Andrew Jackson was leaving office in 1836, leaving the venerable Martin Van Buren to fend for himself in a mess not of his own doing. The Panic of 1837 was a consequence of many factors sprawling from Jackson’s election in 1828 to 1836. The first of these factors was the bank war between the