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The nullification crisis was a conflict between the U.S. state of South Carolina and the federal government of the United States in 1832–33. It was driven by South Carolina politician John C. Calhoun, who opposed the federal imposition of the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 and argued that the U.S. Constitution gave states the right to block the enforcement of a federal law.
With locations in Decatur and Huntsville, Alabama, Calhoun is the largest of the two-year institutions comprising The Alabama Community College System. Calhoun is an open-admission, community-based, state-supported, coeducational, comprehensive community college dedicated to providing affordable, high-quality and accessible education to individuals in its four-county service area.
Há 6 dias · South Carolina's most storied national politician, John C. Calhoun served as secretary of war, vice president, secretary of state, and finally as U.S. senator, where his final act was to help ...
23 de out. de 2023 · John Caldwell Calhoun was an American statesman who served as the Vice President of the United States, in office between 1825 and 1832. His political career started in the House of Representatives in 1810, where he distinguished himself as one of the leaders of the War Hawks. Calhoun became Secretary of War in the James Monroe administration ...
John Caldwell Calhoun ( Abbeville (South Carolina), 18 maart 1782 - Washington D.C., 31 maart 1850) was een vooraanstaande Amerikaanse politicus uit de Zuidelijke Verenigde Staten. Van 1817-1825 was hij minister van Defensie (Oorlog) onder James Monroe. Hij was van 1825-1829 vicepresident onder president John Quincy Adams en aansluitend van ...
26 de mar. de 2019 · John C. Calhoun and Slavery as a “Positive Good:” What He Said. The “positive good” speech of February 6, 1837, is vintage Calhoun, an exercise of his conception of the proper role of a statesmen placed in the highest deliberative body of the Union. That role was to look beyond the present clamour and clatter of routine politics and ...
During his years in the Senate, he ceased to be a nationalist and became a staunch sectionalist and outspoken defender of slavery and the South. In 1844, President John Tyler appointed Calhoun secretary of state, and Calhoun served in that position for one year. He was reelected to the Senate in 1845 and served until his death on March 31, 1850.
