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Henry Clay
who has been called the "Great Pacificator" and the "Great Compromiser," was a U.S. congressman, senator, statesman, and a twice-unsuccessful presidential candidate from the Whig Party -
John C. Calhoun
South Carolina who served as vice president under both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. In 1832, Calhoun resigned from the vice presidency to accept a position in the United States Senate. Throughout the 1830s and 1840s, he led a crusade against abolitionism and those antislavery legislators who sought to limit the expansion of slavery into the western territories -
Economic and social differences
Economic and social differences between the North and the South. -
Jefferson Davis
was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. After a distinguished career in national politics as Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce, Davis served as a congressman and then as a Mississippi senator -
Slave and Non-Slave State
The fight between Slave and Non-Slave State Proponents.
the latitude 36 degrees 30 minutes north except in Missouri. -
Stephen A. Douglas
was an Illinois politician who dominated the U.S. Senate throughout the 1850s. He is perhaps best remembered for engaging in a series of fiery debates with Republican Abraham Lincoln during the 1858 Illinois senatorial race -
Frederick Douglass
born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was a runaway slave, a supporter of women's rights, and probably the most prominent abolitionist and human rights leader of the nineteenth century -
States versus federal rights.
Since the time of the Revolution two camps emerged: those arguing for greater states rights and those arguing that the federal government needed to have more control -
Growth of the Abolition Movement.
the northerners became more polarized against slavery -
Election of 1860
when Lincoln won presidency
