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The Webster-Hayne debate was a series of back-and-forth speeches between Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Senator Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina in January 1830. What started as a debate over the sale of western lands blossomed...

Daniel Webster gives his famous 'Second Reply to Hayne' on 27 January 1830 during the Webster-Hayne debate, painting by George Peter Alexander Healy, 1851. Great Hall at Faneuil Hall, Boston.

Senator Daniel Webster delivers his famous reply to Senator Robert Y. Hayne on 27 January 1830, at the climax of the Webster-Hayne debate, illustration from 363 of The political history of the United States by James Penny Boyd, 1888. Library...

Daniel Webster, or 'Black Dan', who made up one-third of the 'Great Triumvirate' of US congressmen (the other two being Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun), portrait by Francis Alexander, commissioned in honor of his legal defense in Dartmouth...

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The Compromise of 1850 was a series of five bills passed by the US Congress in September 1850 to diffuse a sectional crisis brewing between the 'free states' of the North and the 'slave states' of the South. The crisis was sparked by a disagreement...

John Tyler (1790-1862) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the tenth president of the United States. His presidency was a tumultuous one – initially elected as vice president, he came to office after the death of his predecessor...

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) was an American lawyer and statesman, one of the key political figures of the Antebellum Era. Initially a nationalist, Calhoun spent his early career trying to strengthen and modernize the federal government, but...

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was a poet and playwright of the English Renaissance, who flourished during the Jacobean Era (1603-1625). One of the most successful dramatists of his time, he often collaborated with other playwrights, including...

The Battle of Guilford Court House (15 March 1781) was one of the last major engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Fought near Greensboro, North Carolina, it was a pyrrhic victory for the British army under Lord Charles...