A patriotic sectionalist: The political transformation of John C. Calhoun, 1816-1833
| dc.contributor.author | Cyryca, Paul A. | |
| dc.contributor.department | History | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-26T18:09:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-26T18:09:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description.abstract | John C. Calhoun is almost exclusively remembered as the most ardent defender of the South and states' rights. His name has become a byword for sectionalism. Such associations only tell half of the story. For the first decade of his political career, Calhoun was the archetypal nationalist, promoting tariffs, internal improvements, and a national bank. He refused to abandon his nationalism in spite of a surge in radicalism in his home state of South Carolina. Ironically, it was a group of northem, not southern, radicals who ultimately drove Calhoun to embrace the doctrines of states' rights and sectionalism. Abolitionism represented a grave threat to the Union Calhoun loved so dearly by striking at the heart of the one institution the South could not do without--slavery. Thus, in the 1830s, the radical antislavery activists of the North succeeded in driving Calhoun into the arms of a group of southern radicals that had been putting pressure on him all along. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 87 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | theses | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/M2319S611 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/11393 | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Salisbury University | en_US |
| dc.subject | John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) | en_US |
| dc.title | A patriotic sectionalist: The political transformation of John C. Calhoun, 1816-1833 | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
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