Seminole War Dbq

The first Seminole War of 1817-1819 that was in the Florida territory validated the impulsive nature between the U.S. government and Native American tribes. In 1817 John C. Calhoun, a solid supporter of Indian removal, was named secretary of war by James Monroe. Calhoun united with Andrew Jackson and Lewis Cass, governor of Michigan Territory, to urge agreement of a removal plan. Monroe was hesitant of this removal plan until January 1825, when he sent a special memo to Congress describing how relocating in the West as the only way to resolve "the Indian problem." Straightaway, Calhoun gave a report suggesting to resettle almost 100,000 eastern Indians and suggested $95,000 for it to happen (McGill). The colonization of North American came

His father was, a farmer, landowner, a legislator, an anti-Federalist political activist, and a slave owner. He later attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, after graduating he attended Law school, also in Connecticut. (Niven J)(Rafuse). In Law school he was the under study of an opinionated follower of a strong federal government named Tapping Reeve. Several years after he left South Carolina, he returned and took over his father’s land and slaves. Calhoun, was a recognized U.S. statesman and strong supporter of the slave-plantation arrangement of the Federalist South. He associated himself with the Republican Party led by Henry Clay, Speaker of the House. While he was young congress man for South Carolina, He was a member of party that pushed President James Madison to fight the War of 1812. Calhoun established the Second Bank of the U.S. He also wrote the bonus bill that would have laid the foundation for nationwide network of roads and canals but President James Madison vetoed it. Calhoun went on to serve as a U.S. Secretary of war under President James Monroe. He was vice under President John Quincy Adams and briefly Secretary of State under President John Tyler. He argued the federal government was a creation of the states and the courts nor Congress were the negotiators of the constitutionality of federal laws (Brinkley

The country was divided self-consciously with different priorities. The dispute of slavery came to the forefront in American politics, primarily in the South because of their asset in large scale agriculture. The issue came to head when the debate whether the Missouri Territory was going to be entered as a free a state. The result was the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Calhoun boldly stated his view from the Senate floor in 1837 that the race-based slavery that was prominent in the South was “instead of an evil, a good- positive good.” He argued that “there has yet been a prosperous and civilized culture in which a part of the community did not live on the labor of the other” (Haworth Pg. 41-46). This was his way of justifying