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Paperback / softback. New. Dominated by the personalities of three towering figures of the nation's middle period - Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and President Andrew Jackson - Olive Branch and Sword: The Compromise of 1833 tells of the political and rhetorical dueling that brought about the Compromise of 1833, resolving the crisis of the Union caused by South Carolina's nullification of the protective tariff. In 1832 South Carolina's John C. Calhoun denounced the entire protectionist system as unconstitutional, unequal, and founded on selfish sectional interests. Opposing him was Henry Clay, the Kentucky senator and champion of the protectionists. Both Calhoun and Clay had presidential ambitions, and neither could agree on any issue save their common opposition to President Jackson, who seemed to favour a military solution to the South Carolina problem. It was only when Clay, after the most complicated maneuverings, produced the Compromise of 1833 that he, Calhoun, and Jackson could agree…
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Olive Branch and Sword: The Compromise of 1833 Paperback - 1999
by Merrill D. Peterson
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- Title Olive Branch and Sword: The Compromise of 1833
- Author Merrill D. Peterson
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 148
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher LSU Press
- Date 1999-03-01
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780807124970 / 0807124974
- Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.34 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 0.86 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: South
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 81013739
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.561
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