John C. Calhoun was a prominent U.S. statesman and spokesman for the slave-plantation system of the antebellum South. He helped steer the United States into war with Great Britain and established the Second Bank of the United States.
False: President Polk obtained Oregon from Britain in order to allow the territorial threat of Great Britain to end in the Canadian area. He gained full ownership. He felt Oregon Territory should be divided along the 49th parallel.
