HIST308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Floride Calhoun, War Hawk, Moses Waddel
13 Sep 2016
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Vote on declaration of war disclosed the strength of opposition 79-49 house, 19-13. True causes of war was not free trade and seamen"s rights as the federalists argued; instead in jeffersonian weakness and folly, subservience to france and what randolph suspecting republican designs on canada called agrarian cupidity . Webster, clay, and calhoun all arrived political stage congress may 1813 announced a new era of american statesmanship. Kentucky was a new land, separated from the atlantic states by the appalachian barrier, was the offspring of va and received independence in 1792. Told a story of him coming to ky as uneducated poor orphan; although not entirely true. Henry watkins who moved the family to ky; but. Henry stayed behind , watkins arranged for him to become a deputy clerk in high court. After a year or so in clerk"s office, became secretary to the chancellor george.
