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    From the country 's most punctual days, Congress has battled with the natural issue of the national government 's right part in encouraging financial advancement. Henry Clay 's "American System," formulated inside the burst of patriotism that took after the War of 1812, stays one in all the chief customarily essential specimens of an administration supported project to orchestrate and adjust the country 's agribusiness, trade, and business. Somewhat English American Accords wherever arrangement

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    Henry Clay, (1777–1852) was an American lawyer, skilled public speaker, and politician who represented Kentucky in the House of Representatives. He believed that “The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity”... The 19th century was an era of growth. During this time there were many advances in discovery, inventions, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and electricity. The Industrial

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    Henry Clay introduced the compromise of 1850 with an intent to keep the United states together. The compromise consisted of a set of resolutions which aimed to please both North and South America and lessen the chances of civil war. Mounting tensions between northerners and southerners over newly acquired territories in the west were very alarming to politicians in 1850. The core of this debate was the question of whether or not frontier territories should join the Union as new slave states. The

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    John C. Calhoun was not only a United States statesman, but also a nationalist and outspoken supporter of the slave and plantation system in the pre-Civil War South. In his early days as a War Hawk and congressman, Calhoun helped to guide the United States into war with Great Britain. He also had a hand in establishing the Second Bank of the U.S. He was in staunch opposition to President Polk's Mexican-American War and admitting California as a free state. He was a very vocal and well known leader

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    Henry Clay: The Man. Not a Myth, but a Legend Harriet Tubman, Mr. Simm, and Henry Clay. These people are very different, but they have something in common: they’re all great Americans. Today, I will speak why one of them is an extraordinary American, possibly the best American within all of history. This very American is the 19th century politician also known as Henry Clay. Mr. Clay was a well-known politician known for his American System and his works as President John Quincy Adams’ Secretary

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    The Significance of Henry Clay Henry Clay. Born on April 12, 1777, had 11 children throughout his life and sorrowfully passed on June 29, 1852. However, those are only the basics. Now the significance of his existence cannot be overlooked. Throughout time, Henry Clay has consistently remained an exceptionally significant man. He was more than just an ordinary man. Henry Clay accomplished many significant achievements. Such as, being “The Great Compromiser”, giving half a century of service, and

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    was Henry Clay? He was 19th century politician who served under the presidency of John Quincy Adams. But in his early years he was a frontier lawyer before he became one of the senators of Kentucky and the speaker of the house. He later returned to congress and was one of the first to push for the compromise of 1850, about race and slavery. He soon died on June 29, 1852. To really know about Henry Clay is and what he was about than we have to start off with his early years of life. Henry Clay was

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