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.