the compromise failed to pass because of the opposition by both pro-slavery southern Democrats, which was led by John C. Calhoun, and anti-slavery northern Whigs.
He was the grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon and other western Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia Governor Berkley for trying to appease the Doeg Indians after the Doegs attacked the western settlements. The frontiersmen formed an army, with Bacon as its leader, which defeated the Indians and then marched on Jamestown and burned the city. The rebellion ended suddenly when Bacon died of an illness.
