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Expansion & Improvements

Expansion & Improvements. 11.2. The Great Triumvirate. 3 Most Influential Statesmen of the Antebellum Period. Henry Clay. Daniel Webster. John C. Calhoun. Missouri Compromise (1819). MO wanted to enter the Union as a Slave State

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Expansion & Improvements

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  1. Expansion & Improvements 11.2

  2. The Great Triumvirate 3 Most Influential Statesmen of the Antebellum Period Henry Clay Daniel Webster John C. Calhoun

  3. Missouri Compromise (1819) • MO wanted to enter the Union as a Slave State • This would create an imbalance in Senate between Free & Slave states • Henry Clay of KY came up with a solution…

  4. The Compromise • MO entered as Slave state + ME entered as Free • For every new state, one of opposite status must enter at same time • No “New” slave states north of Missouri’s southern border.

  5. The American System • Another Henry Clay Idea • Americans realized need for internal improvements • This idea used tariff money to fund building projects = better roads & canals

  6. Cumberland Road • 1st Federal Road Project 1818 - 1850 • Collected tolls for more improvements

  7. Erie Canal • Largest project before Civil War • Linked Great Lakes with NYC • Led to further settlement of Midwest

  8. John Q. Adams (MA) Andrew Jackson (TN) Election of 1824 VS

  9. Jackson won popular vote, but neither had won enough electoral votes. • House of Reps. Had to break the tie. • Speaker of House, Henry Clay, chose Adams as winner! • Adams then made Clay his Secretary of State

  10. Jackson Called this“A Corrupt Bargain!”

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