Author name:
علي فيصل غازي حسين المعموري
Supervisor name:
حيدر طالب حسين الهاشمي
Abstract:
Abstract
The study of the history of countries depends on several factors and factors, the most important of which is the study of figures that had a great role in making this history, which cannot be completed without going through the study of characters that are a pivotal and fundamental penalty from it, and that the history of the United States of America is replete with many important figures that have emerged on its military field And politics, and contributed in various ways to making that history, as well as contributed to the formation of American society and its social and economic ideas, laws, and internal and external affinities.
Henry Clay is one of the most prominent and prominent American politicians in the early nineteenth century, although he was not elected president, but he had enormous influence in the American Congress, and the most important characteristic of Clay was his rhetorical abilities, and this made his popularity very large in The United States, however, this political leader was also vulnerable to many political attacks at the time humiliated by many enemies during his long career.
Despite the emergence of a lot of literature that dealt with Henry Clay's personality in the United States and elaborated on the details of his personal life and political activities, the Iraqi library lacks an academic study on the subject, and this was what motivated and motivated to choose the subject of the message, and from this standpoint the choice was made On the topic (Henry Clay and his political role in the United States of America 1795-1849)
This study included an introduction and four chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter, which came under the title (his birth, its origins, and the early days of his political work), covered four topics. The first topic touched on his birth and upbringing in Virginia. The third is due to his professional and social development. As for the fourth topic, he shed light on the early stages of his political work.
As for the second chapter (Henry Clay's political activity 1806-1819), it included five topics, the first dealt with his membership in the American Senate and his effective role in local politics in Kentucky until 1821, while the second topic focused on his role in fueling the war with Britain and touched on the third topic To his role in peace negotiations with Britain and his conclusion of a treaty that sang in 1815, and the fourth topic dealt with his political role in the US House of Representatives for the period 1815-1820, while the last topic dealt with Clay's role in the Missouri settlement in 1820.
As for the third chapter (political activity of Henry Clay 1821-1834), it included six topics, the first topic dealt with its position on the laws of the presidential authority and its role in approving the customs tariff of 1824, while the second topic touched on his participation in the presidential elections of 1824, and the third topic dealt with its role In choosing John Quincy Adams as President of the United States, the fourth topic focused on his diplomatic activity as Secretary of State 1824-1828, and the fifth topic dealt with his position on the administration of President Andrew Jackson during the period 1828-1832 and his participation in the presidential elections of 1832, and the sixth topic highlighted his role Legislative of during the years 1833 - 1834, and the establishment of 1833 Whig Party.
The fourth chapter dealt with (his political and legislative role 1834-1852), which included six topics, the first topic touched on his legislative role in the Senate between 1834-1836, and the second topic dealt with his legislative role between 1837-1840, and the third topic was devoted to showing Clay's position on the elections The presidential elections of 1840, and the fourth topic highlighted his political role between 1842-1844, his participation in the presidential elections in 1844, and the fifth topic touched on his position on the war with Mexico that erupted between 1846-1848 and his position on the presidential elections 1848, and discussed the topic The sixth legislative role of Henry Clay between 1848 - 1852 .
The study of the thesis relied on various sources, including foreign books, documentary books, published foreign research and foreign encyclopedias, as well as Arabic, Arabized, letters and scholarly books, and at the forefront of these sources are foreign books that deal with the biography of Henry Clay, most notably the author's book Calvin Colton entitled The Life and Times of Henry Clay, and the American encyclopedias were of no less importance than other sources, chief among them the American Encyclopedia The Encyclopedia Americana in its various parts. On the role of Henry Clay in the Congress from the positions and his voting in the proposed bills in the corridors of the House of Representatives throughout his presence there, and the most prominent of these documents is the Congress of the United States, Register of Debates in Congress, Senate Journal.
The letter reached some important points; the most important point was the great roles that Clay played in order to save the union from disintegration on more than one occasion, as Henry Clay reckons many of the achievements that contributed to strengthening the unity of the union and the strength of the country starting from his role in the settlement of Missouri, ending with The compromise of 1850, especially since the last role he played at the end of his political career is for the sake of a civil war for a decade.
No scientific research is free from difficulties in its completion stage, foremost of which is the difficulty of obtaining modern resources necessary to prepare the research, in addition to that there were some difficulties that I suffered from in translation, as most of the sources are in the English language.
