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Even after Clay passed away he had a great impact on political leaders that took over after the Civil War. Even the Mississippi Senator Henry S. Foote said, “Had there been one such man in the Congress of the United States as Henry Clay in 1860-'61 there would, I feel sure, have been no civil war.” Abraham Lincoln admired Clay and said, “My idea of a great man.” Lincoln and Clay also had many similarities when it came to slavery and the Union. Even a Kentuckian, John J, Crittenden tried to keep the Union together by the Constitutional Union Party but it was unsuccessful but Kentucky was still in the Union during the Civil War which showed how Clay influenced them. Last, in 1957 a Senate Committee chose Clay as one of the five greatest U.S. Senators along with the four others.

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Clay defended the former vice president Aaron Burr in 1806 but when Burr was later charged with treason Clay was fortunate enough that his defenses and relationship with Burr did not harm his national reputation just as it was being built up. Also, Clay opposed Federalists efforts to limit immigration and to shut up Republican disagreements with Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Clay had lost both the fight over the bank and his second bid for the presidency but he also had is successes. Clay addressed the South Carolina nullification crisis with his compromise tariff of 1833 which lowered the tariffs for the coming ten years. There were arguments about South Carolina’s refusal to collect federal tariffs, but many believed that it started with the Southern being afraid of the North’s abolition movement. Clay was able to stop conflict because the resisting South Carolinians were taking up arms and Jackson was threatening to attack. Many conflicts happened and later on he got defeated multiple times so he was sent to retirement because he was sixty-seven years old and after his son died at a battle he desired the nomination for president but was denied because of his age, his record of electoral defeat, and his opposition to slavery, and the Mexican American War.

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The video doesn't want to upload for some reason on padlet so I submitted it on classroom along with the link.

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Clay#ref322516

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay

http://www.history.com/topics/henry-clay

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Clay was born on a farm in Virginia during the American Revolution and was the fourth of the five surviving siblings. His father used to be a tobacco farmer and a Baptist minister but he died when Clay was four years old so his mother remarried. Later on, his biographies made it look like he was starting to go out of poverty but that ignored that he had a good amount of education and family connections which gave him a clerkship under Virginia jurist by the name of George Wythe which was the judge of the court in Richmond. Wythe introduced Clay to the law and Clay did a quick study and was admitted to the bar in 1797. The number of lawyers in Richmond inspired him to follow his family to Kentucky. Clay settled in Lexington in 1797 and by time had a growing law practice. Clay develop a commanding courtroom which made him a formidable defense attorney. In 1821 he became the first attorney to file a professional and organized with the U.S. Supreme Court. He also was one of the firsts to use a plan called the not guilty by reason of insanity to save from the hanging a client accused of murder. Those strategies were some of the many innovations that marked his name in history and made him a legal pioneer. As he just moved to Lexington he promoted city improvements and supported Transylvania University where he ended up teaching law. By time he became a pillar of the Lexington community but also still kept his habits of drinking and gambling. He married Lucretia Hart and with his family’s wealth and Clay’s own industry they bought a large farm with many different kinds of grains and animals and was one of the first to buy a stallion horse.

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Clay’s main idea was to have an integrated economic program which was the American System. This meant there would be a protective tariff, a national bank that would be owned by private stockholders and the federal government, and last, there would be federal subsidies for transportation. The public lands that are in the west would be sold and not be given away so the money they make would be used for education and internal improvements. He wanted his plan to promote economic development, to tie different countries together, and to lower the dependence on imports. The American System became the main platform of Clay’s Whig party, which was made to oppose the Democratic party of Andrew Jackson which created the second party system. Whigs were all over the country but especially in high classes, and places where they wanted government economic growth, and in Protestant religious groups that wished a strong government would help their plan of moral reform. Later on, Clay was being called the Great Compromiser because he helped in forming the three landmark sectional compromises which were the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Compromise of 1850, and the Tariff Compromise of 1833. But the border state Kentucky came sectional conflicts and he tried to avoid civil war but like many of his goals, he was defeated. Clay never become president and his Whig party disappeared after he died. But it helped out the Republican party because they featured some things from the American System and with time his economic and political vision of what he wanted America to be like was fulfilled.

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Henry Clay was an unsuccessful presidential candidate and he played an important role when it came to national politics for over 40 years. He was secretary of state under John Quincy Adams and was a speaker of the House of Representatives longer than anyone else has been during the nineteenth century. For sure he was the most influential member that was part of the Senate during the golden age. He was one of the most loved politicians of America because of his charms but was hated because of all the scheming that has done.He was a nationalist and was committed to the economic development and political integration of the United States. Clay was one of the War Hawks which were the men that believed war with Great Britain had to be done to preserve the overseas markets of American staple producers. He was a slaveholder but he disapproved that slavery is a system and persuaded slow release and resettlement of the freed people in Africa. He also defended the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians to their lands and also warned that taking over Texas would start a war with Mexico and tensions between North and South and when the war came he was still against it. Because of that, he had good relations with Latin America.