John C. Calhoun(1820-1850)

Biography

• Was from South Carolina• Quite school when he was 17 to work on the

farm.• Went back to school at the University of Yale• He was VP for Adams and Jackson.• He was married to his first cousin her name

was Floride Bonneau Colhoun.• They had 16 kids in 18 years.

His career

• 7th VP of the united states.• 16th secretary of state.• 10th secretary of war.• Senator of S.C• Was a member of the house of reps.

Family

• He was married to his first cousin her name was Floride Bonneau Colhoun.

• They had 16 kids in 18 years.

Nullification:• At first Calhoun was against nullification.• He though that the Tariff of 1828 was

unconstitutional and that it favored industrialization and was trying to stop slavery.

• He argued that nullification would give everyone equal power.

Slavery:• Calhoun though slavery was a good thing,

he described it as a “positive good” and not a “necessary evil.”

• He argued that slavery benefits both sides. Whites will get their work done; and black will be fed, housed, clothed, and given a job.

• He argued that there needs to be a working and aristocrat class, and without slaves whites would have to do the work and low costs.

• “ There has never been a civilized or rich society where one community did not live off the labor of another”

• He was an advocate for the fugitive slave law and led the pro-slavery faction in the senate.

States Rights:

• When Calhoun first started he was for tariffs and was a nationalist.

• He later defended states rights and nullification.

• He argued a state should be allowed to not follow a law they find unconstitutional.

• He used the American Principle’s in his defense; Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness. States should be able to nullify laws they don’t find constitutional in order to reach these principles.

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