Known as "the Great Compromiser," for 10 points, name this longtime Speaker of the House from Kentucky who proposed the American System.
Most historians argue that this man's "Letter on Texas," in which he stated that he would only annex that territory "without dishonor [and] without war" was decisive in his losing the 1844 election to Polk. He feuded with John Tyler after Tyler vetoed this man's bill trying to resurrect the Bank of the US, and having finished third in the 1824 election, he threw his electoral votes to John Quincy Adams in what Jackson called a "corrupt bargain." Known as "the Great Compromiser," for 10 points, name this longtime Speaker of the House from Kentucky who proposed the American System.
Most historians argue that this man's "Letter on Texas," in which he stated that he would only annex that territory "without dishonor [and] without war" was decisive in his losing the 1844 election to Polk.
Henry {Clay}