HST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: South Carolina Senate, William Grayson, Nat Turner
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Chief black hawk of sauk tribe in illinois and wisconsin said that he had signed a treaty but wasnt aware that they would have to leave. They led rebellion against us; started in illinois and spread to wisconsin territory; 200 sauk and fox people murdered; tribes removed to areas west of mississippi. Basically he was a south carolina senate representative who wanted nullification of the tariff of abominations (1828). a representative from south carolina; born in beaufort, s. c. , november 2, 1788; In 1832 he published a review of the celebrated slavery debate of 1831-32 in the. Virginia general assembly, professor at william and mary college who led the way for southerners who refused to apologize about slavery. 1835 law passed by southern congress which made it illegal to talk of abolition or anti-slavery arguments in congress-silencing it was found unconstitutional because it violated freedom of speech.
