Answer: well, for starters he founded the Democratic Party and equalized the executive branch and congress in terms of power. Then again with the Indian removal act and all we really can’t say that he was a “good person”.
Explanation:
Slavery was THE great debate of the 1850's as was the question of continuing a union that threatened the lives and property of the South. It caused Lincoln's election in 1860 and fueled the movement to secession and war. Slavery was the dividing point over which there was a limit to the compromises that could be effected. It clearly drove the decade as it had shaped the whole century.
In Chicago 1945 December 21 Tuesday
