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Henry Clay

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  • Born

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    Henry Clay

  • British troops ransacked Clay's home

  • Admitted into Virginia Bar

  • Moved to Lexington, Kentucky

    Clay was a young lawyer and got along well with the people in his new town.

  • Strongly opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts

  • Married Lucretia Hart

  • Known as a War Hawk

    US went to war with Britain in War of 1812 due in part by Henry Clay

  • Clay's politics

    Pushed for Idependance of Latin American republics, advocated for National Bank, argued for a negotiated settlement between slave-owning states and the rest of the country over its western policy

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Lost to Adams in race to be President

    Adams appointed Clay as Secretary of State

  • Jackson became president

    Clay's National Republican party was coming apart, so he moved back to Kentucky.

  • Clay returns to Washington DC and Senate

  • Clay becomes head of Whig Party

  • Compromise Tariff

    This reduced the tariff rate and eased the tensions between the Andrew Jackson White House and Southern legislators

  • Calfiornia became non-slave state

    Clay introduced a bill that allowed California to join US as non-slave state without adding another slave state as compensation.

  • Death