Calhoun was a political leader in South Carolina and a strong proponent of States Rights. Calhoun was the leader who brought on the "Nullification Crisis" during Andrew Jackson's first term, when the...
Nothing. Calhoun had been dead eleven years before the war started. Had he been alive its safe to assume he would have been a secessionist and like the rest of the secessionists would have wanted to...
South Carolina political figure who was elected to Congress in 1810. He also served as vice president, secretary of state and senator. He was most noted as a defender of states' rights and slavery....