John C. Calhoun:pro-South, pro-Slavery
Bram SimsHIST299 Final Presentation
OutlineThesisHistoriographyBackgroundMain argumentsConclusion
Pro-South, Pro-Slavery influencesPaternal FinancialPolitical
Historiography Frederic Bancroft, Calhoun and the South
Carolina nullification movement, 1928.Irving Bartlett, John C. Calhoun, A Biography,
1993.August Spain, The Political Theory of John C.
Calhoun, 1951. Charles Wiltse, John C. Calhoun, Nullifier,
1829-1839, John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840-1850, 1949 and 1951 respectively.
BackgroundEarly life NationalistSectionalist
Paternal Influences
•Patrick Calhoun•Standards: Self-government and slavery•Stability
Financial Influences
•Agriculture• Recession
Politics
•Tariff of 1828 a.k.a. Tariff of Abominations•Petticoat Affair•Switch from Nationalist to Sectionalist
ConclusionInfluences “Calhoun’s strengths, however, were limited
by his unquestioning commitment to his culture and its institutions. Those commitments seemed increasingly out of place in a revolutionary world that chanted the mantra of liberty, equality, and nationality”
-John Belohlavek
ReferencesBancroft, Frederic. Calhoun and the South Carolina
nullification movement. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1928.
Bartlett, Irving. John C. Calhoun: A Biography. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1993.
Calhoun, John. Slavery a positive good. 1837.Spain, August. The Political Theory of John C.
Calhoun. New York: Bookman Associates, 1951.Wiltse, Charles. John C. Calhoun, Nullifier, 1829-1839.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1949.Wiltse, Charles. John C. Calhoun, Sectionalist, 1840-
1850. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.